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*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/7/17250  Collection 425/95 Operations in East Africa: reports of engagements, honours and rewards IOR/L/MIL/7/17250 1914-1919] British Library Digitised Manuscripts. Awards to both British and Indian soldiers. From [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=ior!l!mil!7!17250_f224r page 224] there is a description of the action which took place on the Tsavo River on 6th September 1914.
 
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/7/17250  Collection 425/95 Operations in East Africa: reports of engagements, honours and rewards IOR/L/MIL/7/17250 1914-1919] British Library Digitised Manuscripts. Awards to both British and Indian soldiers. From [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=ior!l!mil!7!17250_f224r page 224] there is a description of the action which took place on the Tsavo River on 6th September 1914.
 
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Military operations : East Africa: Volume I August 1914-September 1916''] compiled by  Charles Hordern 1941 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Part of the series "History of the Great War based on Official Documents". This was the only volume  published.
 
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Military operations : East Africa: Volume I August 1914-September 1916''] compiled by  Charles Hordern 1941 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Part of the series "History of the Great War based on Official Documents". This was the only volume  published.
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*[https://archive.org/stream/statisticsofmili00grea#page/715/mode/1up "List of published despatches on Military Operations during the Great War"] page 715 ''Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1920'' The War Office HMSO 1922. Includes East Africa.  Locate these despatches in the [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice ''London Gazette''].
 
*[http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg04macp#page/n3/mode/2up  ''History of the Great War: Medical Services: General History, Volume IV''] by G W Macpherson 1924.  Includes  East Africa.  Archive.org
 
*[http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg04macp#page/n3/mode/2up  ''History of the Great War: Medical Services: General History, Volume IV''] by G W Macpherson 1924.  Includes  East Africa.  Archive.org
 
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'']  by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on  East Africa.
 
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'']  by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on  East Africa.

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Sixth Avenue Nairobi, British East Africa c 1915 sent by John Flatman who was probably in British East Africa with the Indian Army

Also Includes some other regions of Africa.

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Somaliland 1920: The Final Campaign against the “Mad Mullah”. Includes Indian Army troops.

Maps

Historical books online

"Beho Chini" [Bweho Chini] by ‘Ba-Ture’ page 324 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org. Nigerians in German East Africa
"A Nigerian Column" by ‘Ba-Ture’ page 779 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org.
The accounts appear to be extracts from the book Flying and Sport in East Africa, by Leo Walmsley1920, available to those in North America, etc on Hathi Trust Digital Library
The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.

South-West Africa Campaign

The South-West Africa Campaign was the conquest and occupation of German South West Africa (Namibia) by forces from the Union of South Africa acting on behalf of the British Government at the beginning of the First World War.

Togoland and the Cameroons

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