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“Our guard at Chogoria during the worst of the emergency 1953-5, By God’s goodness, Chogoria was never attacked, & mercifully there have been no post-emergency reprisals, a great a-to-p.” During the Emergency security fences were installed as was a watch tower a fifteen strong home guard was formed under the leadership of ex-chief, and church elder, Jotham Murianki [middle second row] and they patrolled the mission from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. ❧ The image is from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the period from 1947-1961 at the Chogoria mission which was established near Mt Kenya, in 1922, and run by Dr Irvine.
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