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==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums Great War Forum] contains a category "Sub Saharan Africa".
 
*[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums Great War Forum] contains a category "Sub Saharan Africa".
*[http://gweaa.com Great War in Africa Association]
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*[http://gweaa.com Great War in Africa Association]. Includes a category Medical Archive, which  currently consists of documents relating to the Pike Report into medical conditions in East Africa, 1918.
*[http://www.academia.edu/17269264/World_War_I_in_East_Africa_1916-1918 ''World War I in East Africa''] by Ross Anderson 2001 PhD Thesis.  academia.edu. [http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/5195 Abstract] from  University of Glasgow] website.
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*[http://www.academia.edu/17269264/World_War_I_in_East_Africa_1916-1918 ''World War I in East Africa''] by Ross Anderson 2001 PhD Thesis.  academia.edu. [http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/5195 Abstract] from  University of Glasgow] website, with link to a pdf download.
 
*[http://www.idsa.in/africatrends/indian-army-east-african-campaign-world-war-i_pkgautam_1215 "Indian Army in the East African Campaign in World War I"] by P K Gautam. ''Africa Trends'' July-September 2015 The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) [India].
 
*[http://www.idsa.in/africatrends/indian-army-east-african-campaign-world-war-i_pkgautam_1215 "Indian Army in the East African Campaign in World War I"] by P K Gautam. ''Africa Trends'' July-September 2015 The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) [India].
 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170302195115/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-land/other-war-theatres/1072-indian-volunteers-in-the-great-war-east-african-campaign.html  Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign], now an archived webpage. Western Front Association.  
 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170302195115/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-land/other-war-theatres/1072-indian-volunteers-in-the-great-war-east-african-campaign.html  Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign], now an archived webpage. Western Front Association.  
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*Article [http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/publications/counterpoints/how-the-great-war-razed-east-africa/ "How the Great War Razed East Africa"] by Edward Paice africaresearchinstitute.org
 
*Article [http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/publications/counterpoints/how-the-great-war-razed-east-africa/ "How the Great War Razed East Africa"] by Edward Paice africaresearchinstitute.org
 
*[http://www.bsa.org.nz/index.php/stories/b-s-a-in-german-east-africa?showall=1&limitstart=    B.S.A.s in German East Africa]. The South African Motor Cyclist Corps.  bsa.org.nz
 
*[http://www.bsa.org.nz/index.php/stories/b-s-a-in-german-east-africa?showall=1&limitstart=    B.S.A.s in German East Africa]. The South African Motor Cyclist Corps.  bsa.org.nz
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*[https://thesamsonsedhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/flight-in-ww1-africa-paper.pdf "The use of flight in the African campaigns of World War 1"] by Dr Anne Samson.  thesamsonsedhistorian.files
 
*[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol053sm.html "The Third Man: Willy Trück and the German Air Effort in South West Africa in World War I"] by S. Monick ''Military History Journal'', South African Military History Society, Vol 5 No 3, June 1981
 
*[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol053sm.html "The Third Man: Willy Trück and the German Air Effort in South West Africa in World War I"] by S. Monick ''Military History Journal'', South African Military History Society, Vol 5 No 3, June 1981
 
*[http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/bibliography-detail.php?cID=KZTTWF9I&t=East%20Africa Bibliography: East Africa] firstworldwarstudies.org.
 
*[http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/bibliography-detail.php?cID=KZTTWF9I&t=East%20Africa Bibliography: East Africa] firstworldwarstudies.org.
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:See  below for the one despatch for Rhodesia, and one for East Africa.
 
:See  below for the one despatch for Rhodesia, and one for East Africa.
 
*[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
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:Transcribed reports by Dr WW Pike on the medical services in East Africa in the [http://gweaa.com/medical-project/medical-archive/ Medical Archive] gweaa.com. Includes British East Africa and German East Africa, the latter publication is titled ''Report On Medical And Sanitary Matters In German East Africa 1917'', published 1918.
 
*[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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463  Archive.org version]. 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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463  Archive.org version]. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on  East Africa.
 
**There are two known ASC MT Driver memoirs.<ref>
 
**There are two known ASC MT Driver memoirs.<ref>

Revision as of 06:11, 19 November 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

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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.
See below for the one despatch for Rhodesia, and one for East Africa.
Transcribed reports by Dr WW Pike on the medical services in East Africa in the Medical Archive gweaa.com. Includes British East Africa and German East Africa, the latter publication is titled Report On Medical And Sanitary Matters In German East Africa 1917, published 1918.
"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
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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