Nairobi War Cemetery
Rows of Commonwealth war graves set beside a still-active thoroughbred racecourse.
This guide to Nairobi War Cemetery, set beside the still-running Jockey Club racecourse on Ngong Road, opens with more than nineteen hundred Commonwealth graves cut into the earth from 1941 onward. It follows one name carved instead into the East Africa Memorial, because his body was never found: Sergeant Nigel Leakey, a settler's son who grew up nearby and was fighting in Abyssinia with the King's African Rifles when Italian tanks broke through at a river crossing called Colito, and he had already fired off every round of mortar ammunition he carried. Stand at the quiet wall bearing his name, a few dozen paces from where crowds still cheer a photo finish.
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