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*[https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences  Great War Diaries of  John Bruce Cairnie, King's African Rifles] Scroll down  to letter C for  The Great War Diaries - 1917 (King's African Rifles) and The Great War Diaries - 1918/1919 (King's African Rifles).  Cairnie was posted in December 1917 to 5/4 K.A.R. at M’bagathi [Kenya] wwi.lib.byu.edu.
*[https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences  Great War Diaries of  John Bruce Cairnie, King's African Rifles] Scroll down  to letter C for  The Great War Diaries - 1917 (King's African Rifles) and The Great War Diaries - 1918/1919 (King's African Rifles).  Cairnie was posted in December 1917 to 5/4 K.A.R. at M’bagathi [Kenya] wwi.lib.byu.edu.
*[https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences  East African Campaign Diary - Tanzania & Mozambique: 1917 – 1919] by Percival W Probert. Select letter P of Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences wwi.lib.byu.edu, or [http://www.valentina.net/PWP/ Direct link]. If you select pages “Web versions”, note that contents are more extensive than appear, for example the diary continues for over 100 pages. Percival Probert was with the Royal Engineers, Wireless Signals Corps.
*[https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences  East African Campaign Diary - Tanzania & Mozambique: 1917 – 1919] by Percival W Probert. Select letter P of Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences wwi.lib.byu.edu, or [http://www.valentina.net/PWP/ Direct link]. If you select pages “Web versions”, note that contents are more extensive than appear, for example the diary continues for over 100 pages. Percival Probert was with the Royal Engineers, Wireless Signals Corps.
*[http://www.25throyalfusiliers.co.uk The Old and the Bold: The 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen) in the Great War 1914-1918]. Select "On Campaign" for transcriptions of personal accounts from newspaper articles, and "East Africa"/Despatches for transcriptions from the ''London Gazette''
*The Frontiersmen Historian. [25th Bn Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen)]
**"Frontiersmen in their own words" [https://frontiersmenhistorian.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/frontiersmen-in-their-own-words-part-1/ Part 1], [https://frontiersmenhistorian.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/frontiersmen-in-their-own-words-part-2/ Part 2]
**[https://frontiersmenhistorian.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/the-frontiersmens-lorry/ "The Frontiersmen’s Lorry"]. Indian Army Staff at Nairobi are heavily critised.
*[http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p4013coll2&CISOPTR=65&CISOBOX=1&REC=1#metajump  "Battle of Tanga, German East Africa, 1914"]. Kenneth J Harvey, 2003. Master of Military Art and Science Theses from Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. In November 1914, British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" conducted an amphibious assault on the Port of Tanga in German East Africa
*[http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p4013coll2&CISOPTR=65&CISOBOX=1&REC=1#metajump  "Battle of Tanga, German East Africa, 1914"]. Kenneth J Harvey, 2003. Master of Military Art and Science Theses from Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. In November 1914, British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" conducted an amphibious assault on the Port of Tanga in German East Africa
*[http://www.chakoten.dk/tanga_1914.html#n4 The Battle of Tanga – 1914]  by Geoffrey Regan. This article from "Dansk Militærhistorisk Selskab - Chakoten" is in English and Danish and appears to be based on ''Brassey’s Book of Military Blunders'' by Geoffrey Regan
*[http://www.chakoten.dk/tanga_1914.html#n4 The Battle of Tanga – 1914]  by Geoffrey Regan. This article from "Dansk Militærhistorisk Selskab - Chakoten" is in English and Danish and appears to be based on ''Brassey’s Book of Military Blunders'' by Geoffrey Regan

Revision as of 09:12, 5 March 2017

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.

FIBIS resources

External links

Somaliland 1920: The Final Campaign against the “Mad Mullah”. Includes Indian Army troops.
Introduction; Part I. 17 January - 24 May 1916; Part 2. 25 May - 17 September 1916; Part 3.
 18 September 1916 - 26 February 1917

Maps

Historical books online

Contents page viii; General Index page 583; Index to Arms, Formations and Units page 597; Maps at end of book, after page 603.
"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

Fiction

References

  1. Gardenerbill. MT Driver Memoir Is there one? Great War Forum 19 January 2015 et al. There is mention of East Africa by Motor Lorry by W W Campbell [William Wallace] and With the Motor Transport in British East Africa by Sgt. William. E. W. Terrell . Retrieved 10 December 2016