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*[http://www.centenarynews.com/article/100-years-ago-today-battle-of-lukigura-in-east-africa "100 Years Ago Today: Battle of Lukigura in East Africa"] by  Andrew Kerr 24 June  1916 centenarynews.com. 2nd Battalion Kashmir Rifles, see the Fibiwiki page [[Kashmir Infantry]], were Indian Army [[Imperial Service Troops]] raised by the Maharaja of Kashmir.
*[http://www.centenarynews.com/article/100-years-ago-today-battle-of-lukigura-in-east-africa "100 Years Ago Today: Battle of Lukigura in East Africa"] by  Andrew Kerr 24 June  1916 centenarynews.com. 2nd Battalion Kashmir Rifles, see the Fibiwiki page [[Kashmir Infantry]], were Indian Army [[Imperial Service Troops]] raised by the Maharaja of Kashmir.
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/29545746 "The Battle Of Karonga"] by T. Cullen Young ''The Nyasaland Journal'' Vol. 8, No. 2 (July, 1955), pp. 27-30, published by: Society of Malawi - Historical and Scientific. Jstor.org. Register with Jstor.org and read online for free. This battle on 8 September 1914, near the northern border of Nyasaland (now Malawi) was one of the earliest actions fought any where in Africa in the 1914-1918 war, and involved the 1st Battalion, The King’s African Rifles.
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/29545746 "The Battle Of Karonga"] by T. Cullen Young ''The Nyasaland Journal'' Vol. 8, No. 2 (July, 1955), pp. 27-30, published by: Society of Malawi - Historical and Scientific. Jstor.org. Register with Jstor.org and read online for free. This battle on 8 September 1914, near the northern border of Nyasaland (now Malawi) was one of the earliest actions fought any where in Africa in the 1914-1918 war, and involved the 1st Battalion, The King’s African Rifles.
*[http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1162/1178 "Norforce: Major General Edward Northey and the Nyasaland and North-Eastern Rhodesia Frontier Force, January 1916 to June 1918"] by Ross Anderson.  ''Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies'' Vol 44, No 1 (2016): Special Issue - The Union at War, 1914-1953.  Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
*[http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1162/1178 "Norforce: Major General Edward Northey and the Nyasaland and North-Eastern Rhodesia Frontier Force, January 1916 to June 1918"] by Ross Anderson.  ''Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies'' Vol 44, No 1 (2016): Special Issue - The Union at War, 1914-1953.  Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. A download which you may need to locate in your downloads folder.
*[http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1161/1177 "Go Spy Out the Land: Intelligence Preparations for World War I in South West Africa"] by James Stejskal ''Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies'' Vol 44, No 1 (2016): Special Issue - The Union at War, 1914-1953.  Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
*[http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1161/1177 "Go Spy Out the Land: Intelligence Preparations for World War I in South West Africa"] by James Stejskal ''Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies'' Vol 44, No 1 (2016): Special Issue - The Union at War, 1914-1953.  Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. A download which you may need to locate in your downloads folder.
*"A Machine Gunner's Odyssey Through German East Africa: The Diary of E S Thompson January 1916 - February 1917" ''Military History Journal'', South African Military History Society, Vol 7 No 3,  June 1987 - Vol 7 No 6, December 1988. The author was in the 7th South African Infantry.
*"A Machine Gunner's Odyssey Through German East Africa: The Diary of E S Thompson January 1916 - February 1917" ''Military History Journal'', South African Military History Society, Vol 7 No 3,  June 1987 - Vol 7 No 6, December 1988. The author was in the 7th South African Infantry.
:[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol073et.html  Introduction]; [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol074et.html Part I. 17 January - 24 May 1916];  [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol075et.html Part 2. 25 May - 17 September 1916]; [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol076et.html Part 3.
 18 September 1916 - 26 February 1917]  
:[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol073et.html  Introduction]; [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol074et.html Part I. 17 January - 24 May 1916];  [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol075et.html Part 2. 25 May - 17 September 1916]; [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol076et.html Part 3.
 18 September 1916 - 26 February 1917]  
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*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA417332 ''When Elephants Clash: A Critical Analysis of Major General Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East African Theater of the Great War''] by Thomas A Crowson, Maj USA  2003 Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection.  DTIC ADA417332.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA417332 ''When Elephants Clash: A Critical Analysis of Major General Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East African Theater of the Great War''] by Thomas A Crowson, Maj USA  2003 Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection.  DTIC ADA417332.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA416385  ''Battle of Tanga, German East Africa, 1914''] by Kenneth J Harvey, 2003. A thesis. Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection. DTIC ADA416385. In November 1914, British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" conducted an amphibious assault on the Port of Tanga in German East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA416385  ''Battle of Tanga, German East Africa, 1914''] by Kenneth J Harvey, 2003. A thesis. Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection. DTIC ADA416385. In November 1914, British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" conducted an amphibious assault on the Port of Tanga in German East Africa.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120324184225/http://www.chakoten.dk/tanga_1914.html The Battle of Tanga – 1914]  by Geoffrey Regan. This article, now archived, from "Dansk Militærhistorisk Selskab - Chakoten" is in English and Danish and is stated to be based on the Introduction to ''Brassey’s Book of Military Blunders'' by Geoffrey Regan. (However, there may be more than one editions of this book as nothing was seen in a 2000 US edition.)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120324184225/http://www.chakoten.dk/tanga_1914.html The Battle of Tanga – 1914]  by Geoffrey Regan. This article, now archived, from "Dansk Militærhistorisk Selskab - Chakoten" is in English and Danish and is stated to be based on the Introduction to ''Brassey’s Book of Military Blunders'' by Geoffrey Regan. (However, there may be more than one editions of this book as nothing was seen in a 2000 US edition.) Available online under slightly different title, see below.
*First page only of [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071846809422315?journalCode=rusi19  "Armoured Trains in British India"] by Colonel A. A. Phillips C.I.E., V.D ''Royal United Services Institution. Journal Volume 113, Issue 651, 1968'' pages 254-257.  There is mention of the armoured train crew from the Regiment sent to East Africa during the First World War. They operated until the railway lines were safe from German attacks and then manned a tug on one of the Great Lakes.
*First page only of [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071846809422315?journalCode=rusi19  "Armoured Trains in British India"] by Colonel A. A. Phillips C.I.E., V.D ''Royal United Services Institution. Journal Volume 113, Issue 651, 1968'' pages 254-257.  There is mention of the armoured train crew from the Regiment sent to East Africa during the First World War. They operated until the railway lines were safe from German attacks and then manned a tug on one of the Great Lakes.
*Listen to the podcast [http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/event/great-war-razed-east-africa/ How the Great War Razed East Africa: Edward Paice on WW1 in Africa] africaresearchinstitute.org
*Listen to the podcast [http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/event/great-war-razed-east-africa/ How the Great War Razed East Africa: Edward Paice on WW1 in Africa] africaresearchinstitute.org
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*[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.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk German Colonial Uniforms] includes WW1 period.  
*[http://www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk German Colonial Uniforms] includes WW1 period.  
*[https://archive.org/details/german1 Images: 1885-1915 Colonial German East and West Africa Uniforms] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/4e8589c3b40e7e4c3fee666bf0f39e87 Images: 1885-1915 German East and West Africa Troops] Archive.org
*[http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/bibliography-detail.php?cID=KZTTWF9I&t=East%20Africa Bibliography: East Africa] firstworldwarstudies.org. Currently you are directed to the page [https://www.zotero.org/groups/55813/first_world_war_studies_bibliography/items/collectionKey/C5XVCPQ3 Africa] zotero.org
*[http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/bibliography-detail.php?cID=KZTTWF9I&t=East%20Africa Bibliography: East Africa] firstworldwarstudies.org. Currently you are directed to the page [https://www.zotero.org/groups/55813/first_world_war_studies_bibliography/items/collectionKey/C5XVCPQ3 Africa] zotero.org
** Includes
** Includes
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_I)#/media/File:World_War_I_in_East_Africa.jpg Map: The Great War in East Africa] Wikipedia
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_I)#/media/File:World_War_I_in_East_Africa.jpg Map: The Great War in East Africa] Wikipedia
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/war-office-archive  Guide: War Office Archive of [online<nowiki>]</nowiki> Maps relating to the former British East Africa] (modern-day Kenya, Uganda and adjacent parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia).  The maps were created between 1890 and 1940. British Library website.
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/war-office-archive  Guide: War Office Archive of [online<nowiki>]</nowiki> Maps relating to the former British East Africa] (modern-day Kenya, Uganda and adjacent parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia).  The maps were created between 1890 and 1940. British Library website.
 
*[https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/military-maps?page=1&display=list Military Maps] from UCT [University of Cape Town] Libraries includes British maps of German East Africa 1915/1916 (More details<ref>[https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/284846-military-maps-191516-from-gea-online/ Military Maps 1915/16 from GEA online] ''Great War Forum'' 12 September 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2020.</ref>)
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[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.
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*[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
:Transcribed reports by Dr W W 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.
:Transcribed reports by Dr W W 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.
*[https://archive.org/stream/warinafrica1914100onei#page/n11/mode/2up ''The War in Africa, 1914-1917, and in the Far East, 1914''] by H C O’Neil 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns00dane ''British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918''] by Edmund Dane 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/historyofgreatwa04buch#page/104/mode/2up "The Conquest of East Africa January 1915- November 26, 1917"] page 105 ''A History  of the Great War, Volume IV'' by John Buchan 1923 Archive.org. For other volumes in this series, see [[First World War#Historical books online 2| First World War - Historical books online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/ontokilimanjarob0000gard ''On to Kilimanjaro; the bizarre story of the First World War in East Africa''] by Brian Gardner 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
* ''Duel For Kilimanjaro An Account Of The East African Campaign 1914-1918'' by Leonard Mosley. Published c 1963.  Previously available Digital Library of India (handle/2015/525169) and perhaps may become available again.
*[https://archive.org/details/guerillacolonelv00hoyt/mode/2up ''Guerilla : Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck and Germany's East African Empire''] by Edwin P Hoyt 1981 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarinafrica00byro/page/n5 ''The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918''] by Byron Farwell 1986 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofmi00rega/page/4/mode/2up "The Battle of Tanga (1914)"] page 4 ''The Guinness Book of Military Blunders'' by Geoffrey Regan 1995 edition, first published 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-07.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VII: Campaigns in Mesopotamia and East Africa, and the inter-war period, 1918-38''] edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952.  nzsappers.org.nz  
*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-07.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VII: Campaigns in Mesopotamia and East Africa, and the inter-war period, 1918-38''] edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952.  nzsappers.org.nz  
:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain  A E Battle, RE  ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116.  Includes  Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war  Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy  and Northern Russia.  Melbourne University Digital Collection.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain  A E Battle, RE  ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116.  Includes  Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war  Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy  and Northern Russia.  Melbourne University Digital Collection.
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*[https://archive.org/details/goldcoastregimen00clif ''The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign''] by  Sir Hugh Clifford  1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/goldcoastregimen00clif ''The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign''] by  Sir Hugh Clifford  1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft/page/n3  ''The Story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915-1919''] by Captain Ivor D Difford [1920] Archive.org. Includes  service in East Africa, and [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]].
*[https://archive.org/details/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft/page/n3  ''The Story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915-1919''] by Captain Ivor D Difford [1920] Archive.org. Includes  service in East Africa, and [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]].
*[https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale ''War in the Air: being the story of the part played  in the Great War by the Royal Air Force, Volume III''] by H A Jones  1931  Archive.org. Part of the series "History of the Great War based on Official Documents". Includes German East Africa.
*"An Airman’s Experiences in East Africa" by Leo Walmsley. ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 206-207 July 1919-June 1920 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi206edinuoft#page/632/mode/2up Page 633], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi206edinuoft#page/788/mode/2up page 788], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagaz207edinuoft#page/52/mode/2up page 53], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagaz207edinuoft#page/188/mode/2up page 189]. Walmsley was part of  26 (South Africa) Squadron RFC.
:The accounts appear to be extracts from the book ''Flying and Sport in East Africa'', by Leo Walmsley 1920, (stated elsewhere to have been printed with a small print run) available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012166544 and also available to those in North America, etc on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009013492 Hathi Trust Digital Library] or [https://books.google.com/books/about/Flying_and_Sport_in_East_Africa.html?id=M6NBAAAAYAAJ Google Books].
:[https://archive.org/details/turnoftide0000walm/page/n7 ''Turn of the Tide''] by Leo Walmsley 1945. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Contains  [https://archive.org/details/turnoftide0000walm/page/104/mode/2up/ a chapter on WW1 in East Africa  from page 105].  Published in England under the title ''So Many Loves''.
:''Shells and bright stones : a biography of Leo Walmsley''  by Nona Stead, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007454401 is elsewhere stated to contain information about East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/stream/warinafrica1914100onei#page/n11/mode/2up ''The War in Africa, 1914-1917, and in the Far East, 1914''] by H C O’Neil 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns00dane ''British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918''] by Edmund Dane 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/historyofgreatwa04buch#page/104/mode/2up "The Conquest of East Africa January 1915- November 26, 1917"] page 105 ''A History  of the Great War, Volume IV'' by John Buchan 1923 Archive.org. For other volumes in this series, see [[First World War#Historical books online 2| First World War - Historical books online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/ontokilimanjarob0000gard ''On to Kilimanjaro; the bizarre story of the First World War in East Africa''] by Brian Gardner 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
* ''Duel For Kilimanjaro An Account Of The East African Campaign 1914-1918'' by Leonard Mosley. Published c 1963.  Previously available Digital Library of India (handle/2015/525169) and perhaps may become available again.
*[https://archive.org/details/navyeverywhere00cato ''The Navy Everywhere''] by Conrad Cato  1919. Archive.org Includes "The Navy in East Africa"
*[https://archive.org/details/navyeverywhere00cato ''The Navy Everywhere''] by Conrad Cato  1919. Archive.org Includes "The Navy in East Africa"
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs  ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs''].  Select ''Volume 2:  East Africa to July 1916. Cameroons 1914'', to download a pdf.  Published London c 1920.  Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs)
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs  ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs''].  Select ''Volume 2:  East Africa to July 1916. Cameroons 1914'', to download a pdf.  Published London c 1920.  Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs)
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines  1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes East Africa and the Cameroons. Also available in other online versions, see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Historical books online-Naval]].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines  1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes East Africa and the Cameroons. Also available in other online versions, see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Historical books online-Naval]].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  HMS Severn of the Royal Navy in East Africa.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  HMS Severn of the Royal Navy in East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromdartmouthtod00unse ''From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles, a midshipman's log, edited by his mother''] 1916 Archive.org. Includes two chapters on East Africa. Note: the first page of the Foreword advises that due to tradition, the names of officers and ships have been suppressed- those of the midshipmen mentioned are all fictitious.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromdartmouthtod00unse ''From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles, a midshipman's log, edited by his mother''] 1916 Archive.org. Includes two chapters on East Africa. Note: the first page of the Foreword advises that due to tradition, the names of officers and ships have been suppressed- those of the midshipmen mentioned are all fictitious.
*[https://archive.org/details/storyoflionhuntw00wienrich ''The story of a lion hunt; with some of the hunter's military adventures during the war''] by Arnold Weinholt, late Intelligence Corps [British East Africa] 1922 Archive.org
*"Eighteen Months Shore Service in German East Africa" by Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Cecil G Sprague R N. [https://archive.org/stream/JRNMSVOL5Images/JRNMS_VOL_5#page/n247/mode/2up Pages 184-192] and [https://archive.org/stream/JRNMSVOL5Images/JRNMS_VOL_5#page/n397/mode/2up pages 306-316] ''Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service'', Volume 5 1919 Archive.org
*"Eighteen Months Shore Service in German East Africa" by Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Cecil G Sprague R N. [https://archive.org/stream/JRNMSVOL5Images/JRNMS_VOL_5#page/n247/mode/2up Pages 184-192] and [https://archive.org/stream/JRNMSVOL5Images/JRNMS_VOL_5#page/n397/mode/2up pages 306-316] ''Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service'', Volume 5 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearscaptivit00holtrich ''Two years' captivity in German East Africa, being the personal experiences of Surgeon E. C. H., Royal Navy''] [Ernest Charles Holtom] c 1919 Archive.org. Also see next book.
*[https://archive.org/details/ingermangaolsnar00span ''In German Gaols; a narrative of two years' captivity in German East Africa''] by Ernest F Spanton, Priest of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. 1917 Archive.org. The four anonymous Naval officers mentioned in this book are Holtom (see previous book), Sankey, Paterson and Turner.<ref> athelstan. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/143092-in-german-gaols/?tab=comments#comment-1397443 In German Gaols] ''Great War Forum''  22 April  2010. Retrieved 5 February 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale ''War in the Air: being the story of the part played  in the Great War by the Royal Air Force, Volume III''] by H A Jones  1931  Archive.org. Part of the series "History of the Great War based on Official Documents". Includes German East Africa.
*"An Airman’s Experiences in East Africa" by Leo Walmsley. ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 206-207 July 1919-June 1920 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi206edinuoft#page/632/mode/2up Page 633], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi206edinuoft#page/788/mode/2up page 788], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagaz207edinuoft#page/52/mode/2up page 53], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagaz207edinuoft#page/188/mode/2up page 189]. Walmsley was part of  26 (South Africa) Squadron RFC.
:The accounts appear to be extracts from the book ''Flying and Sport in East Africa'', by Leo Walmsley 1920, (stated elsewhere to have been printed with a small print run) available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012166544 and also available to those in North America, etc on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009013492 Hathi Trust Digital Library] or [https://books.google.com/books/about/Flying_and_Sport_in_East_Africa.html?id=M6NBAAAAYAAJ Google Books].
:[https://archive.org/details/turnoftide0000walm/page/n7 ''Turn of the Tide''] by Leo Walmsley 1945. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Contains  [https://archive.org/details/turnoftide0000walm/page/104/mode/2up/ a chapter on WW1 in East Africa  from page 105].  Published in England under the title ''So Many Loves''.
:''Shells and bright stones : a biography of Leo Walmsley''  by Nona Stead, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007454401 is elsewhere stated to contain information about East Africa.
*From  ''The Motor Cycle'' Archive.org
*From  ''The Motor Cycle'' Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n330/mode/1up "Despatch Carrying in the Jungle"] page 203, Volume 17, September 16, 1916 .  
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n330/mode/1up "Despatch Carrying in the Jungle"] page 203, Volume 17, September 16, 1916 .  
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**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n145 "Stories of the War: What the Scout Overheard"] by “Trooper” [of the East African Mounted Rifles]  page 129,  December 1918.
**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n145 "Stories of the War: What the Scout Overheard"] by “Trooper” [of the East African Mounted Rifles]  page 129,  December 1918.
**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n427 "Stories of the War: Siringa’s Last Battle"] by DMKIII page 394, March 1919. Equatorial Rifles.
**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n427 "Stories of the War: Siringa’s Last Battle"] by DMKIII page 394, March 1919. Equatorial Rifles.
*[https://archive.org/details/storyoflionhuntw00wienrich ''The story of a lion hunt; with some of the hunter's military adventures during the war''] by Arnold Weinholt, late Intelligence Corps  1922 Archive.org. He was signed on in Salisbury [Rhodesia] (now Harare, Zimbabwe), as a special service trooper in the BSA Police.
*[https://archive.org/details/TheMadMullahOfSomaliland ''The Mad Mullah Of Somaliland''] by Douglas Jardine, Secretary to the Administration, Somaliland, I916-21. Published 1923. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/TheMadMullahOfSomaliland ''The Mad Mullah Of Somaliland''] by Douglas Jardine, Secretary to the Administration, Somaliland, I916-21. Published 1923. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/sunsandsomalslea00rayn/page/200 "The Breaking of the Mad Mullah"] Chapter XX, page 200 ''Sun, Sand and Somals; leaves from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland'' by Major H Rayne 1921 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/sunsandsomalslea00rayn/page/200 "The Breaking of the Mad Mullah"] Chapter XX, page 200 ''Sun, Sand and Somals; leaves from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland'' by Major H Rayne 1921 Archive.org
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER504873  ''Through Swamp and Forest : the British Campaigns in Africa'' [Photographs<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 1917. State Library of Victoria.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER504873  ''Through Swamp and Forest : the British Campaigns in Africa'' [Photographs<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 1917. State Library of Victoria.
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearscaptivit00holtrich ''Two years' captivity in German East Africa, being the personal experiences of Surgeon E. C. H., Royal Navy''] [Ernest Charles Holtom] c 1919 Archive.org. Also see next book.
*[https://archive.org/details/ingermangaolsnar00span ''In German Gaols; a narrative of two years' captivity in German East Africa''] by Ernest F Spanton, Priest of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. 1917 Archive.org. The four anonymous Naval officers mentioned in this book are Holtom (see previous book), Sankey, Paterson and Turner.<ref> athelstan. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/143092-in-german-gaols/?tab=comments#comment-1397443 In German Gaols] ''Great War Forum''  22 April  2010. Retrieved 5 February 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/europeanwarpaper00grea/page/n1 ''European War : papers relating to German atrocities, and breaches of the rules of war, in Africa''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament July 1916 HMSO 1916. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/europeanwarpaper00grea/page/n1 ''European War : papers relating to German atrocities, and breaches of the rules of war, in Africa''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament July 1916 HMSO 1916. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/reportsontreatme00grea ''Reports on the treatment by the Germans of British prisoners and natives in German East Africa …''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament September 1917 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/reportsontreatme00grea ''Reports on the treatment by the Germans of British prisoners and natives in German East Africa …''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament September 1917 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilianp00grea ''British civilian prisoners in German East Africa; a report by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War''] 1918. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilianp00grea ''British civilian prisoners in German East Africa; a report by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War''] 1918. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarinafrica00byro/page/n5 ''The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918''] by Byron Farwell 1986 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1sizo659wZMC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 ''The Kenya Gazette''] Issues from 1899.  (broken range). There is a  small scrolling  bar, located underneath the images of the title pages,  which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916, however issues for the other WW1 years are available. There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books
:''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.
*''Les Campagnes Coloniales Belges : 1914-1918'' by Royaume de Belgique, Ministère de la Défense Nationale, État-Major Général de l'Armée, Section de l'Historique, published 1927-1932. French language. From [http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonial/nav/index/all?&s=date&max=100 Koloniale Sammlungen], Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. Read online, or download.
*''Les Campagnes Coloniales Belges : 1914-1918'' by Royaume de Belgique, Ministère de la Défense Nationale, État-Major Général de l'Armée, Section de l'Historique, published 1927-1932. French language. From [http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonial/nav/index/all?&s=date&max=100 Koloniale Sammlungen], Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. Read online, or download.
:[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonialbibliothek/content/titleinfo/7788601 ''Tome I: Introduction : les opérations au Cameroun ; les opérations en Rhodésie ; la période défensive à la frontière orientale''].  1914-1915.  
:[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonialbibliothek/content/titleinfo/7788601 ''Tome I: Introduction : les opérations au Cameroun ; les opérations en Rhodésie ; la période défensive à la frontière orientale''].  1914-1915.  
:[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonialbibliothek/content/titleinfo/7789064 ''Tome II: La campagne de Tabora (1916)''] . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tabora Battle of Tabora] Wikipedia.
:[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonialbibliothek/content/titleinfo/7789064 ''Tome II: La campagne de Tabora (1916)''] . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tabora Battle of Tabora] Wikipedia.
:[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonialbibliothek/content/titleinfo/7788118 ''Tome III: La campagne de Mahenge (1917) : événement de l'année 1918''] . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahenge_offensive Mahenge offensive] Wikipedia.
:[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonialbibliothek/content/titleinfo/7788118 ''Tome III: La campagne de Mahenge (1917) : événement de l'année 1918''] . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahenge_offensive Mahenge offensive] Wikipedia.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1sizo659wZMC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 ''The Kenya Gazette''] Issues from 1899.  (broken range). There is a  small scrolling  bar, located underneath the images of the title pages,  which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916, however issues for the other WW1 years are available. There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books
:''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.*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1sizo659wZMC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 ''The Kenya Gazette''] Issues from 1899.  (broken range). There is a  small scrolling  bar, located underneath the images of the title pages,  which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916, however issues for the other WW1 years are available. There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books
:''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.
*[http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/title/zdb/23820457/ ''Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung''] [German East African Newspaper]. German language. Online editions to 18 August 1916. staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
*[http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/title/zdb/23820457/ ''Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung''] [German East African Newspaper]. German language. Online editions to 18 August 1916. staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
====South-West Africa Campaign====
====South-West Africa Campaign====

Revision as of 02:11, 13 September 2020

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

Also see

  • East Africa for record sources and general information about British African regiments such as the King's African Rifles, and the East African Mounted Rifles.

Regimental and Corps histories

  • History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : the Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914-18 by Sir Martin Farndale 1988. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008145796

Articles

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

Photographs

  • Photo page from On Call In Africa 1910-1932 Dr Norman Parsons Jewell in Seychelles and East Africa. Scroll down for a link to the photographs on the Mary Evans Picture Library, including WW1 war photos which commence image 25, page 3, or direct link. Catalogue details for the photographs. Dr Norman Parsons Jewell served as a Medical Officer with the British Army East African Medical Service throughout the First World War in East Africa and was awarded the Military Cross.

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 W W 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.
"Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)" by Captain A E Battle, RE Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
Chapter 1 Salute the Sappers by Neil Orpen with H.J. Martin. Series South African Forces World War II, Volume 8, Part 1. Published Johannesburg : Sappers Association, c1981-c1982. Details the formation of the S.A. Signal Company, R. E., and other South African Engineer units who served in France and East Africa. Transcription from ibiblio.org/hyperwar.
  • The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on East Africa.
    • There are two known ASC MT Driver memoirs.[2]
  • A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India . Includes a chapter on East Africa.
  • The Post Office of India in the Great War edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. "East Africa", page 253.
  • "Military affairs in Rhodesia from the outbreak of the war to the beginning of 1916" The London Gazette 13 July 1917 Supplement: 30182 Page: 7067. Includes
    • The Tanganyika Naval Expedition [1915-1916] The London Gazette 13 July 1917 Supplement: 30182 Page: 7070.
      • "Naval Operations in Central Africa" by Commander G B Spicer Simson RN, page 287 United Empire The Royal Colonial Institute Journal Volume IX New Series 1918 Archive.org. The Tanganyika Naval Expedition.
      • "The Battle for the Lake" by Harwood Koppel, page 305 February 1919, The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42. As told by Lieutenant-- of the Artillery. Archive.org
      • The article "A Backwater. Lake Victoria Nyanza during the campaign against German East Africa" by Lt. M A Chapman RN from The Naval Review 1921, page 287 is available online on a pay basis from The Naval Review. See Royal Navy for access details.
      • Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure : the Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden 2005. USA title. Originally published in UK 2004 with title Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou were gunboats. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
      • The above operations inspired the novel The African Queen by C S Forester first published 1935, available online , refer below, the basis for the 1951 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
  • Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918 by Christopher J. Thornhill c 1937 is available in a reprint edition,[3] which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, (located in World War2/Military books/East Africa).
  • Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, the 2nd of April, 1918 Archive.org . The Supplement date is 5 April 1918. East Africa.
  • With Botha and Smuts in Africa by W Wittall Late Lieutenant–Commander, RN, Armoured Car Division 1917 Archive.org. Also includes South West Africa.
  • Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young. New and revised edition 1919. First published 1917. Archive.org
    • "‘Marching on Tanga’" Chapter XI, page 109 Francis Brett Young by E G Twitchett 1935 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Comments about the book.
  • For Indian Army regimental histories, see 67th Punjabis; 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers, and 22nd Derajat Mountain Battery, the histories available on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website). Include service in East Africa.
Other Indian Army regimental histories see 101st Grenadiers- service in East Africa, including Tanga;
Three Years of War In East Africa 1919. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Although the author is catalogued as Captain F R Sedgwick, the title page shows the author to be Captain Angus Buchanan, 25th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, (the Legion of Frontiersmen). Also available World Digital Library a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, which has better images.
"Jambo," or, With Jannie in the Jungle; 30 East African Sketches by A W Lloyd, [Captain Arthur Wynell Lloyd M.C, 25th Bn Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen)] [cartoonist] c 1917-1920s Archive.org. Jannie is Jan Christian Smuts.
Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers by J G Millais 1919 Archive.org. Includes two chapters on the East African Campaign.
"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 Walmsley 1920, (stated elsewhere to have been printed with a small print run) available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012166544 and also available to those in North America, etc on Hathi Trust Digital Library or Google Books.
Turn of the Tide by Leo Walmsley 1945. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Contains a chapter on WW1 in East Africa from page 105. Published in England under the title So Many Loves.
Shells and bright stones : a biography of Leo Walmsley by Nona Stead, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007454401 is elsewhere stated to contain information about East Africa.
"Humours of the East African Campaign" [cont] by “A. E. M. M.”, page 504, April 1919, The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42. Poor quality digital file.
"The Breaking of the Mad Mullah" Chapter XX, page 200 Sun, Sand and Somals; leaves from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland by Major H Rayne 1921 Archive.org
Reports on the treatment by the Germans of British prisoners and natives in German East Africa … Presented to both Houses of Parliament September 1917 Archive.org
British civilian prisoners in German East Africa; a report by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War 1918. Archive.org
  • Les Campagnes Coloniales Belges : 1914-1918 by Royaume de Belgique, Ministère de la Défense Nationale, État-Major Général de l'Armée, Section de l'Historique, published 1927-1932. French language. From Koloniale Sammlungen, Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. Read online, or download.
Tome I: Introduction : les opérations au Cameroun ; les opérations en Rhodésie ; la période défensive à la frontière orientale. 1914-1915.
Tome II: La campagne de Tabora (1916) . Battle of Tabora Wikipedia.
Tome III: La campagne de Mahenge (1917) : événement de l'année 1918 . Mahenge offensive Wikipedia.
  • The Kenya Gazette Issues from 1899. (broken range). There is a small scrolling bar, located underneath the images of the title pages, which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916, however issues for the other WW1 years are available. There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books
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.*The Kenya Gazette Issues from 1899. (broken range). There is a small scrolling bar, located underneath the images of the title pages, which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916, however issues for the other WW1 years are available. There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books
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. Military Maps 1915/16 from GEA online Great War Forum 12 September 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  2. 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 5 June 2018.
  3. Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918 by Christopher J. Thornhill. Naval & Military Press.
  4. athelstan. In German Gaols Great War Forum 22 April 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  5. The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915 Naval & Military Press reprint.
  6. Great War in West Africa by Edmund Howard Gorges, originally published c 1916. Naval & Military Press reprint.