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*[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.
*"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*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/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
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/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
*[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.
*Article [http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/publications/counterpoints/how-the-great-war-razed-east-africa/ "How the Great War Razed East Africa"] by Edward Paice africaresearchinstitute.org
*[http://www.bsa.org.nz/index.php/stories/b-s-a-in-german-east-africa?showall=1&limitstart= B.S.A.s in German East Africa]. The South African Motor Cyclist Corps. bsa.org.nz
*[http://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
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