Reginald Berkeley Cole settled in Kenya with his older brother Galbraith Lowry Egerton Cole, who was commissioned into the 10th Royal Hussars as a second lieutenant on 7 March 1900.
After the war, along with his brother Galbraith, he settled in Kenya. Galbraith Lowry Egerton Cole (18811929) was an Anglo-Irish pioneer settler and farmer (1905) of the East Africa Protectorate. Galbraith Cole was commissioned into the 10th Royal Hussars as a second lieutenant on 7 March 1900, at age 19, and went to South Africa for service in the Second Boer War. 
