Markham - Best man to Jock Purves when he married Beryl Clutterbuck in 1919 Capt. Lavendar of the KAR?

Carnelley - a great character; who, to say the least, was a bit of a boozer. He used to go into Naivasha to collect the wages and return a few days later, penniless, with a hangover. When the Queen Mother came to Naivasha to open the Aberdare National Park, the local DC told Roger {Hurt} to see that, on no account must David Lavender be in Naivasha, but he was, directing the traffic with his cheerful grin, no teeth and vast stomach, hanging over the top of very low slung shorts.

During the Emergency, when the Bell Inn was a great meeting place David would pin you to the bar with his stomach and regale you with stories. His florid face and toothless grin an inch from yours. He left under a bit of a cloud of gin for the Congo as a golf pro, sitting in an easy chair in the back of a lorry. I doubt if he survived the Congo Uhuru.

He had a brother, Willie, who was blind and who also used to overindulge but he was on the lime juice when at Naivasha. When David used to abandon him on pay days he used to find his way, somehow, along the main road, to various [sic], who'd look after him until David's return

Runner-up in the Coronation Trophy in 1937.