Debrett 1928 - Sec. for Native Affairs, Tanganyika (acted as Chief Sec. 1926).

Debrett 1954 - Assist. Dist. Commissioner, Kenya 1908-14, Dist. Commissioner 1914, Senior Commissioner, Tanganyika 1920-24, Assist. Ch. Sec. 1924-26, Sec for Native Affairs 1926-9, Colonial Sec. of the Bahamas 1929-34 (Acted as Gov. May to Nov. 1929), Ch. Sec. N. Rhodesia 1934-7, and Gov.  and Com.-in-Chief of Bahamas 1937-40 and of Uganda Protectorate 1940-44 Oscar - During WW1 - Charles Dundas, a senior administrator from Kenya, reported from  Pagani on the coast of GEA. In the Administrative Service Dundas was senior to Oscar [Watkins] and known to have the interest of the African at heart; he too spoke of 'extraordinary difficulties in recruiting of natives for the Military Labour Bureau', and 'that it appears to me as a gruesome task to force them out'. ........... (more)  

East Africa & Rhodesia - 16/2/56 - Obituary

Cashmore - Charles Dundas, writing of the Kitui Kamba in 1913, noted that 'nothing makes one more helpless against him than his discovery that your threat is an empty one.'

Gazette - 26/8/1914 - Appt. - To be a District Commissioner, Hon. Charles Cecil Farquaharson Dundas, to date August 5th 1914

Medals - East African Political Department - EA Unattached & Miscellaneous List, Honorary Captain

Tignor - DC Kiambu in 1912

Crossroads - Sep. 3rd 1908 - I stepped ashore at Kilindini on the island of Mombasa ........ to Kitui .... plodding the 100 mile trail to Kitui station with servants, porters and police escort. ..... With my arrival at Kitui the European population of the station was raised to the number of three. ......... For a long time I shared with my fellow ADC a two-roomed house, devoid of ceiling and floor and riddled with white ants that consumed the doors and windows made of packing cases. Social diversion was limited to occasional calls at the mission stations and on the German settler. ...... Once a year the PC, C.W.Hobley, came on inspection. He had been recently appointed to the post, and was a most knowledgeable and versatile man, and deeply interested in the natives. ......... Soon after my arrival a new DC, J.B. Ainsworth, came, than whom there could have been no happier choice for Kitui and for myself. J.B. Ainsworth had a profound understanding of natives, but more by instinct than from knowledge of their traditions and customs. .......... About a year after my first visit I was back in Therakaland together with a junior colleague A.M. Champion. ...... Except for a spell of 6 months during which I returned to Kitui, my second tour of service was spent in the Kyambu and Nyeri districts of Kikuyuland. ....... At the end of 1913 I was asked if I would mind postponing my leave and being posted to the NFD, ...... My brother Kenneth had once travelled there and described it to me as a region in which DCs hoisted the flag at dawn, lowered it at sunset and in between did little but watch the 'friendlies' outside being murdered by raiders from across the border. ....... July 1916 ....... I was to resume duty as Staff Officer to a newly appointed Chief Political Officer, W. Monson, in civil life Asst. Chief Secretary of Kenya.

'African Crossroads'