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Peter Poole was one of hundreds of young British men who moved to Kenya to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. According to Robert Ruark, these men would hunt Africans with the "same enthusiasm that they devoted to polo or football", often killing them for "sheer sport", British Kenya, 1960 Peter Harold Richard Poole was a British-born Kenyan engineer and shop owner. Poole had emigrated to Kenya from Essex in 1953, after which he immediately joined the Kenyan police reserves to help suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. He later joined the military, and served in Germany, before returning to Kenya in 1956. He owned an electrical shop on Nairobi's Government Road (now Moi Avenue). He was married with two children. According to Robert C. Ruark, an American author, columnist, and big game hunter, he knew exactly why Poole went to Kenya. Kenya has always had a reputation for what the British call "bad hats" , unprincipled free booters, unruly younger sons, and to char...