John William Lawrence O'Hara and the Ugandan Railway

The primary source of information on his death is Chapter 16 in Lt Col. JH Patterson's book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. This is now available on-line via the Gutenberg Project.

Also illuminating and much more readable is The Iron Snake:The story of the Uganda Railway by Ronald Hardy. Part fiction and part fact is does give a feel for the time in ways that the official just cant do.

The primary source of information on the Construction of the Railway is the official history commissioned by the East Africa Railways and Harbours. Permanent Way:The story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway by M.F. Hill published in 1949, and the Parliamentary Papers Relating to the Construction of the Uganda Railway

Parliamentary Papers Relating to the Construction of the Uganda Railway

Parliamentary Papers (British Blue Books) spanning the period 1892 - 1904 relating to the building of the Uganda Railway in Kenya, East Africa, published by HMSO. I have extracted the following from various auction catalogues. Prohibitively expensive to acquire, but available from the British Library on fiche or paper in the Social Sciences reading room.

				
Date	Number	Volume		Title	
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1892	C-6555 			Papers Relating to Mombasa Railway Survey, 	
1892	C-6817			Papers relating to Uganda. 	
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1893	C-6847 			Further Papers relating to Uganda. 	
1893	C-6848 			Further Papers relating to Uganda. 	
1893	C-6853 			Further Papers relating to Uganda. 	
1893	C-7025 			Mombasa Victoria Lake Railway Survey, 	
1893	C-7109 			Further Papers relating to Uganda. 	
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1894	C-7351 			Map of the Southern Portion of East Africa: [To illustrate C-7109] 	
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1895	C-7708 			Papers relating to Uganda. 	
1895	C-7833 			Report of the Committee? Railway Communication with Uganda, 	
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1896	C-7924 			Report on Military Operations against Kabarega, King of Unyoro. 	
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1897	C-8435 			Report By Railway Committee as to Progress of Works 1896 - 1897	
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1898	C-8718 			Papers relating to Recent Events in the Uganda Protectorate. 	
1898	C-8941 			Papers relating to Recent Events in the Uganda Protectorate. 	
1898	C-8942 			Report By Railway Committee as to Progress of Works 1897 - 1898	
1898	C-9027 			Report by Her Majestys Commissioner in Uganda on the Recent Mutiny of 
				the Soudanese Troops in the Protectorate. 	
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1899	C-9123 			Papers relating to Recent Events in the Uganda Protectorate. 	
1899	C-9232 			Papers relating to Events in the Uganda Protectorate and Lieut-Colonel 
				Macdonalds Expedition. 	
1899	C-9331	LXIII		Report on Uganda Railway by Molesworth, 	
1899	C-9333 			Report By Railway Committee as to Progress of Works 1898 - 1899, 	
1899	C-9503 			Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, R.E. of his Expedition from 
				the Uganda Protectorate, May 3, 1898, to March 5, 1899. 	
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1900	Cd.256  		Prelimininary Report by Her Majestys Special Commissioner on the 
				Protectorate of Uganda. 	
1900	Cd.355 			Report By Railway Committee as to Progress of Works 1899 - 1900	
1900	Cd.97 			Memoranda Uganda Railway, 	
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1901	Cd.361  		Maps Illustrative of the Preliminary Report by Her Majestys Special 
				Commissioner on the Protectorate of Uganda.  	
1901	Cd.590	LXVIII		Despatch from His Majestys Special Commissioner in Uganda relating 
				to Travellers in the Protectorate. 	
1901	Cd.670 			Correspondence Uganda Railway, 	
1901	Cd.671	LXVIII		Report by His Majestys Special Commissioner on the Protectorate of 
				Uganda, with Map. 	
1901	Cd.674 			Report By Railway Committee as to Progress of Works 1900 - 1901	
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1902	Cd.1080 		Report By Railway Committee as to Progress of Works 1901 - 1902	
1902	Cd.1082 		Memoranda Uganda Railway 1902, 	
1902	Cd.910 			Instructions to Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Sadler on Appointment as His 
				Majestys Commissioner and Consul-General in the Uganda Protectorate. 	
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1903	Cd.1770			Report By Railway Committee as to Progress of Works 1902 - 1903, 	
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1904	Cd.2164 		Final Report of Committee	
1904	nk			Accounts for the Period Ending 1903. 	
1904	Cd.1839 		General Report on the Uganda Protectorate for the Year Ending 
				March 31, 1903. 	
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1905	Cd.2250 		General Report on the Uganda Protectorate for the Year Ending 
				March 31, 1904. 	
1905	Cd.2332 		Report on Steamboat Service on Lake Victoria, 	
1905	Cd.2716 		Report on Steamboat Service on Lake Victoria, 	
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