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Regiment and remained with them throughout the two days of counter-attacks, during which they sustained heavy casualties. By his personal example and coolness, under heavy machine-gun fire, he was largely responsible for the decisive
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fighters on 27 May 1954. Walker built a bigger hotel at the same location in 1957, and business prospered - encouraged by public interest in the accession of
Elizabeth II some years earlier. His hotel business was featured in
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In 1938, his former employer Lord Baden-Powell retired to the
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Scouting museum) in the hotel grounds. Baden-Powell died on 8 January 1941 and is buried at St Peter's Cemetery in Nyeri. His grave there is a Kenyan National Monument.
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of "James Barbican"' about his life during this period.
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