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== External links ==
[[Image: Nairobi1915.jpg |thumb|right|450px|Sixth Avenue Nairobi, British East Africa c 1915 sent by John Flatman who was probably in British East Africa with the Indian Army]]
*[http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/75-other-war-theatres/1072-indian-volunteers-in-the-great-war-east-african-campaign.html Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign] - Western Front Association.  
Also Includes some  '''other regions of Africa'''.
*Harry Fecitt’s [http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/home.html Harry’s Africa]  kaiserscross.com
==FIBIS resources==
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/437364.html The Advance into German East Africa:  Indian Army Units in Action, March to mid-June 1916]
*"The [[North-Western Railway Battalion|North-Western Railway Volunteer Rifles]] in East Africa in the First World War" by Noel Clark ''FIBIS Journal Number 32 (Autumn 2014)'', pages 30-33. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/447622.html The 129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis.  German East Africa, October 1916 to January 1917]
 
*[http://gweaa.com/?p=279 The 57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army, in German East Africa] by Harry Fecitt gweaa.com. Retrieved 16 October 2014
==Also see==
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/511922.html "Oranges, Dates and Coconuts: 58th Vaughan’s Rifles (Frontier Force) in Egypt, Palestine, Somaliland and Portuguese East Africa 1916 - 1918"] by Harry Fecitt. ''Harry’s Sideshows'' kaiserscross.com. Retrieved 30 September 2014
*[[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.
*[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
==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
*''Cinderella’s Soldiers – The Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve'' by Peter Roger Charlton 2010 and 2nd edition 2018. "The Nyasaland  Volunteer Reserve fought with distinction against the Germans in the First World War in East and Central Africa. The N.V.R. defended the country after an initial invasion from German East Africa and later pursued the German forces down into Portuguese East Africa and then back north." (Nyasaland is now Malawi).
:The 2018 edition is probably available at the British Library UIN: BLL01019296628, although the full title is not given and the author is not given.
*''The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920, as part of  ''The Railway Gazette and Railway News''. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the role of railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine & East Africa.  Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available in a reprint edition<ref> [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/railway-gazette-special-great-war-transportation-number/ ''Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>.
*''Order of Battle of Divisions  Part 5A, Divisions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand and those in East Africa'', compiled by F.W. Perry c 1992. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006378898 and    ''Order of Battle of Divisions. Part 5B, Indian Army Divisions'' compiled by F. W. Perry c 1993 available at the B.L. UIN: BLL01008151437 .  The latter is also catalogued with the additional title ''History of the Great War : based on official documents''. 
===Articles===
*"26 Sqdn RFC in East Africa" by Mike O’Connor and Ray Vann.''Cross & Cockade International''.  In three Parts: pages 138-149, 218-227, 299-306  Volume 50 number 2-3-4, Summer-Winter 2019. [https://www.crossandcockade.com/uploads/50226SqdnEastAfricaPt1.pdf  1st page only, Part 1], [https://www.crossandcockade.com/uploads/50326SqdnPt2.pdf  1st page only, Part 2], [https://www.crossandcockade.com/uploads/50426sdqnPt3.pdf  1st page only, Part 3].
 
==External links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_I) East African Campaign (World War I)] Wikipedia
*[https://www.greatwarforum.org Great War Forum] contains a category "Sub Saharan Africa".
*[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, with link to a pdf download.
*[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/331794/Africa-Great_War.doc Africa’s First World War] Foreign and Commonwealth Office. A download (word document) which you may need to locate in your computer’s download folder. [https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8g8LMq8dubIJ:https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/331794/Africa-Great_War.doc Google Cache version]. "...a subjective and partial account of the First World War from an African perspective".
*[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"], by Harry Fecitt, now an archived webpage. Western Front Association.  
*Harry Fecitt’s [http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/home.html Harry’s Africa]  kaiserscross.com. Includes articles about British and African regiments, together with Indian Army regiments including
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/524201.html  "The 29th Punjabis in  British East Africa, September to December 1914"]. There is also a brief mention of the Cossipore Artillery Volunteers  (Calcutta Volunteer Battery).
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/435201.html  "The Fight at Lubembe Point: Lake Victoria, German East Africa, 6th December 1915"]
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/437364.html "The Advance into German East Africa:  Indian Army Units in Action, March to mid-June 1916"]
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/447622.html "The 129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis.  German East Africa, October 1916 to January 1917"]
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/613522.html "The 3rd Battalion of 2nd King’s African Rifles in German East Africa in 1917"]
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/536101.html "British Somaliland: March 1915 – October 1919 Minor Operations against the ‘Mad Mullah’"]. Includes Indian Army troops.
::[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/566401.html "Somaliland 1920: The Final Campaign against the “Mad Mullah”"]. Includes Indian Army troops.
*Harry Fecitt on gweaa.com, including
**[https://gweaa.com/home/theatres/east-africa-campaign/books-dealing-with-the-east-africa-campaign/the-fighting-around-jasin-1915-harry-fecitt/ "The fighting around Jasin 1915"] [GEA] by Harry Fecitt c January 2019?
**[https://gweaa.com/home/theatres/east-africa-campaign/books-dealing-with-the-east-africa-campaign/indian-expeditionary-force-b-at-tanga-harry-fecitt/ "Indian Expeditionary Force B at Tanga"]  by Harry Fecitt c January 2019?  German East Africa 2nd-5th November 1914. 
**[http://gweaa.com/th-cavalry-east-africa-squadron/ "The 17th Cavalry East Africa Squadron 1915 – 1916"] by Harry Fecitt April 14, 2011.
**"The Indian Railway Corps, East African Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919" by Harry Fecitt, April 2015. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FThe-Indian-Railway-Corps-East-African-Expeditionary-Force_1.pdf html version] [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Indian-Railway-Corps-East-African-Expeditionary-Force_1.pdf pdf]
**"Atonement: The [[5th Regiment of Bengal (Light) Infantry|5th Light Infantry]] Regiment in German Kamerun, August 1915 to February 1916" by Harry Fecitt, April 2015. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F08%2FAtonement-5LI-in-German-Kamerun.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Atonement-5LI-in-German-Kamerun.pdf pdf]
**"The 5th Light Infantry In East Africa March 1916 – January 1918" by Harry Fecitt, April 2015. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2F5LI-in-East-Africa.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/5LI-in-East-Africa.pdf pdf]
**"The [[40th Regiment of Pathan Infantry|40th Pathans]] in action in East Africa, January 1916 to February 1918" by Harry Fecitt, March 2015 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2F40th-Pathans-in-East-Africa.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/40th-Pathans-in-East-Africa.pdf pdf]
**[http://gweaa.com/?p=279 "The 57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army, in German East Africa"] by Harry Fecitt gweaa.com. July 1916-1917. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
**"The [[Derajat Mountain Battery|22nd Derajat Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)]] In East Africa December 1916 to December 1918" by Harry Fecitt [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2F22nd-Derajat-Pack-Battery-in-East-Africa-Dec-1916-Dec-1918.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/22nd-Derajat-Pack-Battery-in-East-Africa-Dec-1916-Dec-1918.pdf pdf]  gweaa.com. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
**"The [[30th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|30th Punjabis]] at Tandamuti Hill and Nakadi Ridge East Africa, February – October 1917" by Harry Fecitt, March 2015 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2F30th-Punjabis-at-Tandamuti-Hill-and-Nakadi.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/30th-Punjabis-at-Tandamuti-Hill-and-Nakadi.pdf pdf]
**"The [[25th Cavalry (Frontier Force)]] in German and Portuguese East Africa September 1917 – February 1918" by Harry Fecitt c May 2016. [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2F25th-Cavalry-in-GEA-PEA-Sep-1917-Feb-1918.pdf  html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/25th-Cavalry-in-GEA-PEA-Sep-1917-Feb-1918.pdf pdf]
**Search the website gweaa.com for articles on African Regiments, including [https://gweaa.com/th-battalion-of-th-regiment-uganda-of-kings-african-rifles-great-war/ "The 4th Battalion of the 4th Regiment (Uganda) of the Kings African Rifles in the Great War"]  by Harry Fecitt March 21, 2011. Contains a brief reference to an Indian Army regiment.
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/511922.html "Oranges, Dates and Coconuts: 58th Vaughan’s Rifles (Frontier Force) in Egypt, Palestine, Somaliland and Portuguese East Africa 1916 - 1918"] by Harry Fecitt. ''Harry’s Sideshows'' kaiserscross.com. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
*"East African Campaign 1914 – 1918: Faridkot Sappers & Miners" by Richard Sneyd [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FCampaign-East-Africa-Copy-for-GWAA-site.pdf  html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Campaign-East-Africa-Copy-for-GWAA-site.pdf  pdf] gweaa.com. Robert (Robin) Thomas Stuart Sneyd was working as a civil engineer in Madras Presidency when he joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in March 1915 and joined the Faridkots at Voi in British East Africa in October 1915 as a Lieutenant. Faridkot Sappers and Miners were [[Imperial Service Troops]] raised, and paid for by the His Highness the Maharajah of Faridkot, recruited from his princely state of Faridkot, in the vicinity of Lahore.
*[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.
*[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. 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.
:[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/vol066ed.html "The German East Africa Campaign - 1914-1918"] ''Military History Journal'' , South African, Military History Society, Vol 6 No 6, December 1985. Includes extracts from a diary kept by the Brigade Signals Officer of the 1st South African Mounted Brigade, Capt F E Jackson, MC
*[https://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/major-charles-stooks/ Soldiers’ Stories: [Diary extracts<nowiki>]</nowiki> Major Charles Stooks]. The diary of Major Charles Stooks of the 5th Light Infantry, Indian Army,  reveals the difficulties faced by those involved in the final conquest of Germany’s West African colony of Kamerun. nam.ac.uk
*[https://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/major-john-montgomery/  Soldiers’ Stories: [Letter extracts<nowiki>]</nowiki> Major John Montgomery] Letters sent home by Major John Montgomery, 1st Mounted Rifles (1st Natal Carbineers), describe the successful campaign fought by South African troops in German South-West Africa. nam.ac.uk
*[http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/captain-alexander-wallace Soldiers’ Stories: [Letter extracts<nowiki>]</nowiki> Medical Officer Captain Alexander Wallace] joined ‘A’ Company of the British South Africa Police in August 1915, and spent the early part of the war securing the border between Rhodesia and German East Africa. In May 1916 he joined the new British offensive.  Wallace was later Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Military Cross for his care of the wounded during the fighting at Mpepo in September 1917. Includes photographs.  nam.ac.uk
*[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.
*[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 criticised.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA392278/mode/2up ''Askaris, Asymmetry, and Small Wars: Operational Art and the German East African Campaign, 1914-1918''] by Major Kenneth P Adgie, Infantry, USA 2001. Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection. DTIC ADA392278
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA404449 ''A Case Study in Leadership - Colonel Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck''] by Lieutenant Colonel John C Stratis United States Army 2002  Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection.  DTIC ADA404449
*[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://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.
*[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums Great War Forum] contains a category "Sub Saharan Africa".
*[https://rshare.library.ryerson.ca/articles/book/The_Mules_are_Splendid_Company_One_Man_s_Experience_of_WWI_Africa/14636196  "The Mules are Splendid Company: One Man's Experience of WWI Africa"] by Sally Wilson 2013. Letters of Thomas Wilson, initially Lieutenant 3rd Battalion King’s African Rifles from June 1915 and from (c March)  1916 Royal Engineers, killed in action 29 June 1917. Read online, or a link to a download to your computer, which you may need to locate in your downloads folder. Ryerson University. rshare.library.ryerson.ca
*[http://gweaa.com Great War in Africa Association]
*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
: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
:Also see Paice's book, ''Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa'' available online below to those with print disability.
*[https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/misremembered-history-first-world-war-east-africa "Misremembered history: the First World War in East Africa"] by Daniel Steinbach 9 April 2015  britishcouncil.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
*[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://www.imperial-research.net/gswa_oob.htm South African OOB : German South West Africa OOB]
*[https://sites.google.com/site/thehistoryjournal/home/26-squadron-rfc "26 (South Africa) Squadron RFC"] "The History Journal".
*[https://www.ajol.info/index.php/smsajms/article/viewFile/145719/135244  "26-Eskader R.F.C"]. No author shown but catalogued Abel Esterhuyse (possibly the editor?) however elsewhere stated  to be by Jan Ploeger. ''Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies'' -  Vol 2, No 1 (1970), pages 68-87. A download which you may need to locate in your downloads folder. From [https://www.ajol.info/index.php/smsajms/issue/view/14801 African Journals Online (AJOL)]. Text in Afrikaans, with some English, including tables, and a Summary in English. "In reality", it was a "British squadron".
*[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
*[https://www.wardeadregister.be/en/new-congo-1914-1918 Belgian War Dead Register] now includes War Dead from the Congo 1914-1918. wardeadregister.be
*[http://www.delvillewood.com/premiereguerre2.htm The First World War: South Africa] Includes Helmet Flashes of South African Units in German South West Africa and German East Africa. delvillewood.com
*[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
** Includes
***''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915'' by John Johnston Collyer. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1937. The Official S A history. Now available online, see below.
*** ''The South Africans with General Smuts in German East Africa, 1916 etc'' by John Johnston Collyer. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1939. The Official S A history. Now available online, see below.
===Photographs===
*[https://oncallinafrica.com/photos/ 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 [http://www.maryevans.com//lb.php?ref=36057 direct link].  [https://oncallinafrica.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/dr-np-jewell-on-call-in-africa-photo-collection.pdf 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===
*[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.
*[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 name=Kott>Kotthaus, Holger. [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 et al. Retrieved 14 September 2020.</ref>)
*[http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/ruanda-urundi/ Maps: Ruanda-Urundi (1942)] U.S. Army Map Service. The University of Texas at Austin.  Thought to be based on  original Belgian maps from 1916 - 1934.<ref name=Kott/>
 
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[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://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.
*[https://archive.org/details/marchingontangaw00younrich ''Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa)''] by Francis Brett Young 1917 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Military operations : East Africa: Volume I August 1914-September 1916''] Compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hordern, late Royal Engineers and General staff, founded on a draft by the late Major H FitzM Stacke. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1941. HathiTrust Digital Library. Part of the series "History of the Great War based on Official Documents".  Titled Volume I,  however the planned second volume was never published.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742748?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Sketches of The East Africa Campaign''] by Capt. Robert V. Dolbey, R.A.M.C.  1918 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a [https://archive.org/details/sketchesoftheeas10362gut transcribed Project Gutenberg edition]  Archive.org
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=12 Contents] page viii; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=629 General Index] page 583; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=643 Index to Arms, Formations and Units] page 597; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=651 Maps at end of book], after page 603.
*[https://archive.org/details/eastafricanforce00fend ''The East African Force 1915-1919; an unofficial record of its creation and fighting career; together with some account of the civil and military administrative conditions in East Africa before and during that period''] by Brigadier General C P Fendall 1921 Archive.org
:Also available [https://archive.org/details/military-operations-east-africa/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ULwiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/details/southafricansgeneralsmuts/page/n1/mode/2up ''The South Africans with General Smuts in German East Africa 1916''] by  Brigadier-General J J Collyer, originally published 1939. Archive.org. Generally considered to be the "Official" South African account.
*[https://archive.org/details/tiprununtoldtrag0000paic/mode/2up ''Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa''] by Edward Paice 2008 edition, first published 2007. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Only available to those with print disability.
: Also published in USA with the title [https://archive.org/details/worldwariafrican0000paic_e4i2/mode/2up ''World War I : the African Front''] with additional cover title ''An Imperial War on the African Continent'' 2010. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Only available to those with print disability.
*[https://archive.org/details/generalsmutscamp00crow/page/n7/mode/2up ''General Smuts' Campaign in East Africa''] by Brig.-General J H V Crowe with an Introduction by Lieut.- General the Rt. Hon. J C Smuts 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/myreminiscenceso00lettuoft ''My Reminiscences Of East Africa'']  by General von Lettow-Vorbeck, [the German commander], published London,  c 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/somenotesontacti00sheprich "Some Notes on Tactics in the East African Campaign"] by Brig-General S H Sheppard from ''The Journal of the United Service Institution of India''  Vol. XLVIII April 1919 pages 138-157. Archive.org.
*[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 in ''The London Gazette'' [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/awards-and-accreditation/content/100079 World War 1 despatches]. Links to all the military despatches from commanders-in-chief.  thegazette.co.uk.
: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
: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.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.525169 ''Duel For Kilimanjaro An Account Of The East African Campaign 1914-1918''] by Leonard Mosley  c 1963. Archive.org, mirror from  Digital Library of India.
*[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
:[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.
:[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Indian-Sappers-and-Miners-1948.pdf ''The Indian Sappers and Miners''] by  E. W. C Sandes [Edward Warren Caulfeild] 1948. (726p).  Includes  Chapter XX, page 533,  on the campaign in East Africa 1914-1918. nzsappers.org.nz.
:[https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/SouthAfrica/Sappers-I/Sappers-1.html 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.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on  East Africa.
:[https://archive.org/details/eastafricamotorlorry/page/n9/mode/2up ''East Africa by Motor Lorry. Recollections of an Ex-Motor Transport Driver''] by W W Campbell 1928 Archive.org
:Campbell's account is one of two known ASC MT Driver memoirs.<ref>
Gardenerbill. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/223499-mt-driver-memoir-is-there-one/  MT Driver Memoir Is there one?] ''Great War Forum'' 19 January 2015 et al. Retrieved 5 June 2018. There is mention of ''East Africa by Motor Lorry'' by W  W Campbell [William Wallace],  now available online and ''With the Motor Transport in British East Africa'' by Sgt. William. E. W. Terrell, c 1920, available at the BL UIN: BLL01003601763.  The first title is available in a [https://gweaa.com/product/east-africa-by-motor-lorry-ww-campbell/ reprint edition, with additional content, from "The Great War in Africa Association"].</ref>
* ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War'' by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726  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. [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n273/mode/2up "East Africa"], page 253.
*''Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920'' 1925. [https://archive.org/details/records-survey-india-vol.-20 Archive.org version], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jAFEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3  Google Books version].  Work of Royal Engineers and other staff  of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30182/supplement/7067 "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
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30182/supplement/7070 The Tanganyika Naval Expedition] [1915-1916] ''The London Gazette'' 13 July 1917 Supplement: 30182 Page: 7070.
***[https://archive.org/stream/unitedempire09royauoft#page/287/mode/1up "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.
***[https://archive.org/details/nationalgeographic19221001/page/n17/mode/2up "Transporting a Navy through the Jungles of Africa in War Time"] by Frank J Magee RNVR  page 331, ''The National Geographic Magazine October 1922''. With Illustrations from Photographs by the author, who was a member of the expedition. Archive.org
***[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag-1919-v42/page/305/mode/2up "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.
***[https://archive.org/details/konigsbergadventure/page/225/mode/2up Chapter 11 "Tanganyika Tactics"] page 225 ''The "Königsberg" Adventure'' by E. Keble Chatterton 1932 Archive.org.
***[https://archive.org/details/mimitoutousbigad00fode/mode/2up ''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 Fiction below,  the basis for the 1951 movie  starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
***[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol014ds.html  "Naval Ships Move Overland up Africa"] by Comdt. D. O. Stratford. South African ''Military History Journal''  Vol 1 No 4 - June 1969.
***''The Phantom Flotilla. The Story of the Naval Africa Expedition, 1915-16'' by Peter Shankland 1973 (originally published 1968) is available at the British Library BLL01003355955. This book is based on interviews with Hother McCormick Hanschell  who was the doctor with the expedition<ref>Guest Karin Eldredge [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/173482-royal-naval-expedition-to-lake-tanganyika/?do=findComment&comment=2498471 Royal Naval Expedition to Lake Tanganyika] ''Great War Forum'' 26 February 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2023.</ref>.
*''Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918'' by Christopher J. Thornhill c 1937 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/taking-tanganyika-experiences-of-an-intelligence-officer-1914-1918/ ''Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918'']  by Christopher J. Thornhill. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/publication/933/military-books/browse online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3],  (located in Military books/East Africa). [https://www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk/_site/custom/database/default.asp?a=viewIndividual&pid=2&person=4087 Biographical details] europeansineastafrica.co.uk.
*[https://archive.org/details/fourthsupplement00grea ''Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, the 2nd of April, 1918''] Archive.org . The Supplement date is 5 April 1918. East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasmutsin00whitrich ''With Botha and Smuts in Africa''] by W Wittall Late Lieutenant–Commander, RN, Armoured Car Division 1917 Archive.org. Also includes South West Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/marchingontangaw00younrich ''Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa)''] by Francis Brett Young. New and revised edition 1919. First published 1917. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.209017/2015.209017.Francis-Brett#page/n115/mode/2up "‘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 [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers]],  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.
:[https://archive.org/details/22ndderajatmountainbty/page/n7/mode/2up ''Historical Record of 22nd Derajat Pack Battery (Frontier Force)''] 1921. Archive.org. Includes German and Portuguese East Africa.
:[https://archive.org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse/page/338/mode/2up "The Devil - My Friend"] by Charles Trehane, page 338 ''True World War I Stories'' 1999, being a reprint of ''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930.  Captain C H Trehane  25th Cavalry  (Frontier Force), Indian Army was in German  East Africa in 1917. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/720/mode/2up "A Side Show (to the memory of some very gallant gentlemen)"] by "Ganpat" (M L A G) page 721 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no  199 Jan-June 1916. Archive.org.  [Tanga, East Africa]. The author "Ganpat" is  [[M L A Gompertz "Ganpat"|M L A Gompertz]].
*[https://archive.org/details/onsafari1917/page/n7/mode/2up  ''On Safari. Experiences of a Gunner in the East African Campaign'']  by F. C. [F H Cooper] 1917. The author was with the South African Artillery.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742748?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Sketches of The East Africa Campaign''] by Capt. Robert V. Dolbey, R.A.M.C.  1918 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/sketcheseastafricacampaign/page/n7/mode/2up  Archive.org], or from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10362 Gutenberg.org], the latter a transcription.
*[https://archive.org/details/royalfusiliersin00onei/page/n9 ''The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War''] by H C O'Neill 1922 Archive.org. In addition to the [[Western Front]], includes [[Gallipoli]], [[Salonika]] and  the 25th Royal Fusiliers in East Africa, from page 269.
: ''Three Years of War In East Africa'' 1919. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284624 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 [https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667040/ U.S. Library of Congress], which has better images.
:[https://archive.org/details/jamboorwithjanni00lloy ''"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.
:[https://archive.org/details/lifeoffrederickc00milluoft ''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/eastafricanforce00fend ''The East African Force 1915-1919; an unofficial record of its creation and fighting career; together with some account of the civil and military administrative conditions in East Africa before and during that period''] by Brigadier General C P Fendall 1921 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022533734.0x000002  British Library Digital Collection edition] where the images may be rotated.
* Articles from ''The Army Quarterly'', all Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv5-1922/page/11/mode/2up "With No. 2 Column German East Africa 1917"] by Brigadier–General R T Ridgeway, page 12  and [https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv5-1922/page/n263/mode/2up Part 2] page 247 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 5, 1922 October- 1923 January.
**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv7-1923/page/109/mode/2up "From Rumbo to the Rovuma. The Odyssey of “One” Column in East Africa in 1917"] By Colonel G M Orr, Indian Army(retired), late Commandant “One” Column page 109 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 7, 1923 October- 1924 January.
*:[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv9-1924/page/285/mode/2up "Smuts v. Lettow. A  Critical Phase in East Africa; August to September, 1916"] by Colonel G M Orr, Indian Army (retired) page 287 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 9, 1924 October- 1925 January.
*:[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv11-1925/page/281/mode/2up "Random Recollections of East Africa, 1914-1918"] by Colonel G M Orr, Indian Army (retired) page 282 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 11, 1925 October- 1926 January.
*:[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv13-1926/page/49/mode/2up "Von Lettow’s Escape into Portuguese East Africa 1917"] by Colonel C M Orr page 50 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 13, 1926 October- 1927 January.
*[https://archive.org/details/loyalnorthlancashirereg/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Volume 2 1914-1919'']  by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1933. Archive.org. Includes East Africa.
* ''The History of the Royal West African Frontier Force''  by Colonel A. Haywood and Brigadier F.A.S.Clarke. 1964.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20220329013439/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Transcribed version], lib.militaryarchive.co.uk, now archived.
*[https://archive.org/details/withnigeriansing00down ''With the Nigerians in German East Africa''] [Nigeria Regiment] by Captain  W D Downes 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withnigeriansing00down ''With the Nigerians in German East Africa''] [Nigeria Regiment] by Captain  W D Downes 1919 Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi203edinuoft#page/324/mode/2up "Beho Chini"] [Bweho Chini] by ‘Ba-Ture’ page 324 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org. Nigerians in German East Africa
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi203edinuoft#page/778/mode/2up "A Nigerian Column"] by  ‘Ba-Ture’ page 779 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/withnigeriansing00down#page/352/mode/1up Map]
*[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/2ndcapecorpscentralafrica/page/n7/mode/2up ''With the 2nd Cape Corps thro' Central Africa''] by A J B Desmore (Abe James Bourne) 1920. South African forces. The Cape Corps were recruited from Coloured people in South Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/sportadventureafrica/page/n11/mode/2up ''Sport and Adventure in Africa. A Record of Twelve Years Big Game Hunting, Campaigning and Travel in the Wilds of Tropical Africa''] by Captain W T Shorthose 1923. Archive.org. The author  was seconded to the 4th Battalion, King’s African Rifles in October 1912 and served in Uganda until the outbreak of the World War. The King’s African Rifles were then moved from place to place as necessity demanded. With the 6th King’s African Rifles he took part in the campaign in Somaliland against the Mad Mullah in 1920.
*[https://archive.org/details/navyeverywhere00cato ''The Navy Everywhere''] by Conrad Cato [real name Cyril Cox RNR<ref> Homercox. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/210056-who-was-conrad-cato/ Who was Conrad Cato?] Great War Forum 9 January 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.</ref>]  1919. Archive.org. Includes "The Navy in East Africa".
:Part of the contents of this book were included in the 2013 reprint ''The Shallow End of War: Accounts of the Royal Navy in the 'Sideshow' Theatres of the First World War, 1914-18''
*[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. HathiTrust Digital Library. Includes East Africa and the Cameroons. [https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 HathiTrust Digital Library.  HMS Severn of the Royal Navy in East Africa. [https://archive.org/details/severnssaga/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version].
:[https://archive.org/details/konigsbergadventure/page/n9/mode/2up ''The "Königsberg" Adventure''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1932 Archive.org. Includes content about the Tanganyika Naval Expedition, refer above, and the gunboats 'Mimi' and 'Toutou' in the chapter commencing page 225.
*[https://archive.org/details/earlybird00moor/mode/2up ''Early Bird''] by Major W G Moore 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was a Naval airman during WW1, who flew from the Navy's first Aircraft Carrier, 'Furious'. He also took part in  the East African Campaign, with a seaplane squadron.
*[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.
*"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.
*[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.
*[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
*"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.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns00dane ''British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918''] by Edmund Dane 1919 Archive.org
:The accounts appear to be extensive extracts from the book [https://archive.org/details/flying-sport-east-africa/page/n11/mode/2up ''Flying and Sport in East Africa''] by Leo Walmsley 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/navyeverywhere00cato ''The Navy Everywhere''] by Conrad Cato 1919. Archive.org Includes "The Navy in East Africa"
:[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''.
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n273/mode/2up "East Africa"], page 253 ''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org
:''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/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
*From  ''The Motor Cycle'' 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
**[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/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
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n389/mode/1up/ "A South African Despatch Rider in “German East”] page 244, Volume 17, September 21st 1916.  
*[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/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n519/mode/1up/ "Motor Cyclist Infantry in German East Africa"] page 324, Volume 17, October 12 , 1916
*[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/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n689/mode/1up  "Despatch Carrying in German East Africa"] page 452, Volume 17,  November 23rd 1916.
*[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 tool bar 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
*[https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1917-v39/page/413/mode/2up "Humours of the East African Campaign"] by “A. E. M. M.”, a signaller in the East African Mounted Rifles, locally known as Bowker’s Horse, page 414 ''The Wide World Magazine.  Volume 39 1917 May-October'' Archive.org. With illustrations. Also included, without illustrations at [https://archive.org/stream/truestoriesofgre04mill#page/254/mode/2up page 254] ''True Stories of the Great War, Volume IV.'' Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag-1919-v42/page/503/mode/2up "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''.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-wide-world-magazine-us-v-41-n-243-1918-07/page/234/mode/2up "My Experiences in German East Africa"] by James Henry Butcher pages 235-243 ''The Wide World'' Volume 41, July 1918. Archive.org The author was a private in the South African Infantry.
*From ''The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42'' 1918-1919. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag-1919-v42/page/103/mode/2up "Sport and War in Central Africa"] [Rhodesia] by Edward F Holland page 104,  December 1918.
**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag-1919-v42/page/129/mode/2up "Stories of the War: What the Scout Overheard"] by “Trooper” [of the East African Mounted Rifles]  page 129,  December 1918.
**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag-1919-v42/page/393/mode/2up "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/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.
*[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/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
*''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/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://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.
:''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
====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.
*[https://archive.org/details/campaigngermansouthwestafrica/page/n9/mode/2up  ''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915''] by Brigadier-General J J Collyer  1937 Archive.org. Regarded as the official South African history.
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothainfield00ritc ''With Botha in the Field''] by Moore Ritchie 1915 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/howbothasmutscon00rayn/page/n5/mode/2up ''How Botha and Smuts Conquered German South West: A Full Record of the Campaign from Official Information by Reuter's Special War Correspondents who accompanied the Forces sent by the Government of the Union of South Africa''] by W S Rayner and W W O’Shaughnessy 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasarmy00robirich ''With Botha's Army''] by J P Kay Robinson 1916 Archive.org
*''General Botha, the Career and the Man'' by Harold Spender 1916  includes Chapters 14 and 15 1914-1915 [https://archive.org/details/generalbotha00spen/page/284/mode/2up pages 285-] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasmutsin00whitrich ''With Botha and Smuts in Africa''] by W Wittall Late Lieutenant–Commander, RN, Armoured Car Division 1917 Archive.org. Also includes East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/generallouisboth1970mein/page/252 "German South-West Africa"] page 253, ''General Louis Botha: a Biography'' by Johannes Meintjes 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/doctorsdiaryinda00walkrich  ''A Doctor's Diary in Damaraland''] by Dr H F B Walker , late Captain RAMC 1917 Archive.org. Damaraland was the central portion of German South-West Africa.
*[https://archive.org/stream/truestoriesofg03mill#page/230/mode/2up "Our Escape from German South West Africa"] by Corporal H J McElnea, late of the Imperial Light Horse, South Africa. Page 231, ''True stories of the Great War, Volume III''. Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. Archive.org
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER297638 ''Hunting the Hun in British [i.e. German<nowiki>]</nowiki> South West Africa : a series of sketches on the humourous side of the G.S.W.A. campaign''] by W. H. Kirby [1915]. The author served with the Natal Light Horse, and was previously artist [cartoonist] for a newspaper. State Library of Victoria. [https://archive.org/details/hunting-hun-gswa/mode/1up Archive.org mirror version]
*[https://archive.org/details/ReportOnTheNativesOfSouthWestAfricaAndTheirTreatmentByGermanyBlueBook ''Report on the Natives of South West Africa and their Treatment by Germany''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament  August 1918, published by HMSO. Archive.org
====Togoland and the Cameroons====
*Also see some books listed under East Africa above.
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents'': [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015019366734?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Military Operations, Togoland and the Cameroons, 1914-1916''] by Brig.-General F J Moberly. HMSO 1931. HathiTrust Digital Library. Lacks maps and illustrations. [https://archive.org/details/military-ops-togoland-cameroons/page/n17/mode/2up Archive.org] lacks maps, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1UKsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP17 Google Books]- title page perhaps may not display and lacks maps.
*''European War. Gold Coast. Correspondence Relating to the Military Operations in Togoland. April 1915'' by [Great Britain] Houses of Parliament. HMSO 1915. [https://archive.org/details/military-operations-togoland-1915/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PbY-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books]
*French Official Histories: [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=11&ref=FRSHD_AFGG_ead ''Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre''] sga.defense.gouv.fr. Includes ''Tome IX. Les fronts secondaires. Deuxième volume. Les campagnes coloniales : Cameroun. - Togo. - Opérations contre les Senoussis''. With online  maps (Cartes).
*[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv12-1926/page/315/mode/2up "The Anglo-French Occupation of Togoland 1914"] by A J Reynolds page 315 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 12, 1926 April- July. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv14-1927/page/393/mode/2up "Reminiscences of the Anglo-French Occupation of the Cameroons 1914"] by A J Reynolds page 394 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 14, 1927 April- July. Archive.org
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Naval Operations''  [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations01corb  Volume I]  by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett 1920 includes the Cameroons. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/716/mode/2up "Doing Her Bit. An Account of a Cruiser’s Operations in the Cameroons"] by Guns.Q.F.C. page 717 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no  198  July-December 1915. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/correspondencere00grea ''Correspondence relative to the alleged ill-treatment of German subjects captured in the Cameroons''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament November 1915 HMSO London 1915 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarwestafrica/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Great War in West Africa''] by Edmund Howard Gorges, Commandant West African Regt, published  1930, first published 1916 Archive.org
====Fiction====
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26642  ''Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force''] by  Percy F.  Westerman.  Illustrator Ernest Prater. 1918 gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/wilmshurstofthef26642gut  Archive.org version]
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39912 ''Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa''] by Herbert Strang. Illustrator Wal Paget. 1919 gutenberg.org.
*The Tanganyika Naval Expedition, refer above,  inspired [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.182328/page/n3/mode/2up  ''The African Queen''] by C S Forester 1940 edition, first published 1935. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201179/page/n3/mode/2up Another edition], but missing at least initial pages. Both Archive.org. There was a later movie in 1951  starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
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Latest revision as of 03:25, 15 August 2024

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
  • Cinderella’s Soldiers – The Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve by Peter Roger Charlton 2010 and 2nd edition 2018. "The Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve fought with distinction against the Germans in the First World War in East and Central Africa. The N.V.R. defended the country after an initial invasion from German East Africa and later pursued the German forces down into Portuguese East Africa and then back north." (Nyasaland is now Malawi).
The 2018 edition is probably available at the British Library UIN: BLL01019296628, although the full title is not given and the author is not given.
  • The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number, originally published in September 1920, as part of The Railway Gazette and Railway News. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the role of railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine & East Africa. Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available in a reprint edition[1].
  • Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5A, Divisions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand and those in East Africa, compiled by F.W. Perry c 1992. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006378898 and Order of Battle of Divisions. Part 5B, Indian Army Divisions compiled by F. W. Perry c 1993 available at the B.L. UIN: BLL01008151437 . The latter is also catalogued with the additional title History of the Great War : based on official documents.

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
Article "How the Great War Razed East Africa" by Edward Paice africaresearchinstitute.org
Also see Paice's book, Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa available online below to those with print disability.

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.
Also available Archive.org, Google Books.
Also published in USA with the title World War I : the African Front with additional cover title An Imperial War on the African Continent 2010. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Only available to those with print disability.
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.
The Indian Sappers and Miners by E. W. C Sandes [Edward Warren Caulfeild] 1948. (726p). Includes Chapter XX, page 533, on the campaign in East Africa 1914-1918. nzsappers.org.nz.
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.
East Africa by Motor Lorry. Recollections of an Ex-Motor Transport Driver by W W Campbell 1928 Archive.org
Campbell's account is one of two known ASC MT Driver memoirs.[3]
  • 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.
  • Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920 1925. Archive.org version, Google Books version. Work of Royal Engineers and other staff of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.
  • "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.
      • "Transporting a Navy through the Jungles of Africa in War Time" by Frank J Magee RNVR page 331, The National Geographic Magazine October 1922. With Illustrations from Photographs by the author, who was a member of the expedition. Archive.org
      • "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.
      • Chapter 11 "Tanganyika Tactics" page 225 The "Königsberg" Adventure by E. Keble Chatterton 1932 Archive.org.
      • 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 Fiction below, the basis for the 1951 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
      • "Naval Ships Move Overland up Africa" by Comdt. D. O. Stratford. South African Military History Journal Vol 1 No 4 - June 1969.
      • The Phantom Flotilla. The Story of the Naval Africa Expedition, 1915-16 by Peter Shankland 1973 (originally published 1968) is available at the British Library BLL01003355955. This book is based on interviews with Hother McCormick Hanschell who was the doctor with the expedition[4].
  • Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918 by Christopher J. Thornhill c 1937 is available in a reprint edition,[5] which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, (located in Military books/East Africa). Biographical details europeansineastafrica.co.uk.
  • 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, 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.
Historical Record of 22nd Derajat Pack Battery (Frontier Force) 1921. Archive.org. Includes German and Portuguese East Africa.
"The Devil - My Friend" by Charles Trehane, page 338 True World War I Stories 1999, being a reprint of Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Captain C H Trehane 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force), Indian Army was in German East Africa in 1917. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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 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.
Part of the contents of this book were included in the 2013 reprint The Shallow End of War: Accounts of the Royal Navy in the 'Sideshow' Theatres of the First World War, 1914-18
The "Königsberg" Adventure by E. Keble Chatterton 1932 Archive.org. Includes content about the Tanganyika Naval Expedition, refer above, and the gunboats 'Mimi' and 'Toutou' in the chapter commencing page 225.
The accounts appear to be extensive extracts from the book Flying and Sport in East Africa by Leo Walmsley 1920 Archive.org.
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.
"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.

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

"Reminiscences of the Anglo-French Occupation of the Cameroons 1914" by A J Reynolds page 394 The Army Quarterly Volume 14, 1927 April- July. Archive.org

Fiction

Holding section

References

  1. Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number Naval & Military Press.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kotthaus, Holger. Military Maps 1915/16 from GEA online Great War Forum 12 September 2020 et al. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  3. Gardenerbill. MT Driver Memoir Is there one? Great War Forum 19 January 2015 et al. Retrieved 5 June 2018. There is mention of East Africa by Motor Lorry by W W Campbell [William Wallace], now available online and With the Motor Transport in British East Africa by Sgt. William. E. W. Terrell, c 1920, available at the BL UIN: BLL01003601763. The first title is available in a reprint edition, with additional content, from "The Great War in Africa Association".
  4. Guest Karin Eldredge Royal Naval Expedition to Lake Tanganyika Great War Forum 26 February 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  5. Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918 by Christopher J. Thornhill. Naval & Military Press.
  6. Homercox. Who was Conrad Cato? Great War Forum 9 January 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  7. athelstan. In German Gaols Great War Forum 22 April 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2018.