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Your brief message is a good example of how difficult this task is.
I have been working off the assumption that Peter Dene's name was not among the list of 32 civilian deaths because he was on active service with the armed forces when he died, and his name would appear on their roll of honour.
At the date of his death Peter Humphrey Dene, DFC, was a District Commandant in the Kenya Police Reserve.
He was mortally wounded by a shot to the stomach on a farm two miles south of Thika - in the same action or series of actions in which Major Earl Wavell was shot dead by a Mau Mau gang on 24 December 1953.
The assistant district commandant, Colonel R.C. Samuels was wounded. Also wounded were Assistant Inspector Pratt, Kenya Police, two un-named Privates in the Black Watch (slightly), and two un-named African Police Constables.
The Mau Mau lost four killed and five taken prisoner (of whom two were wounded), but other members of the gang broke through the police cordon at 4 a.m. on Christmas Day.
But that was not the end of the story, since Peter Dene was posthumously awarded the Queen's Police Medal for Gallantry in June 1954.
William
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