While in Kenya, Bacon maintained a written correspondence with his colleagues in the British athletic community, as well as with his friends in Poland and Czechoslovakia.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Bacon was neighbors in Kenya with fellow Olympic gold medalist Ronald Rawson, who had a small ranch a few miles away from him.

Bacon lived in Kenya from 1921 until March 1938, when he returned to England to attend the funeral of two family members.

Upon returning to England he followed the events leading up to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia with great alarm.

After the war he found the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe "terrifying" and he closely followed events such as the rise of communist rule in Poland.