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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.
*[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.
*"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.
*[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.
*[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.

Revision as of 23:33, 7 February 2018

Sixth Avenue Nairobi, British East Africa c 1915 sent by John Flatman who was probably in British East Africa with the Indian Army

Also Includes some other regions of Africa.

FIBIS resources

External links

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

Maps

Historical books online

Contents page viii; General Index page 583; Index to Arms, Formations and Units page 597; Maps at end of book, after page 603.
See below for the one despatch for Rhodesia, and one for East Africa.
Transcribed reports by Dr WW Pike on the medical services in East Africa in the Medical Archive gweaa.com. Includes British East Africa and German East Africa, the latter publication is titled Report On Medical And Sanitary Matters In German East Africa 1917, published 1918.
"Beho Chini" [Bweho Chini] by ‘Ba-Ture’ page 324 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org. Nigerians in German East Africa
"A Nigerian Column" by ‘Ba-Ture’ page 779 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org.
The accounts appear to be extracts from the book Flying and Sport in East Africa, by Leo Walmsley1920, available to those in North America, etc on Hathi Trust Digital Library
The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.

South-West Africa Campaign

The South-West Africa Campaign was the conquest and occupation of German South West Africa (Namibia) by forces from the Union of South Africa acting on behalf of the British Government at the beginning of the First World War.

Togoland and the Cameroons

Fiction

References

  1. Gardenerbill. MT Driver Memoir Is there one? Great War Forum 19 January 2015 et al. There is mention of East Africa by Motor Lorry by W W Campbell [William Wallace] and With the Motor Transport in British East Africa by Sgt. William. E. W. Terrell . Retrieved 10 December 2016
  2. athelstan. In German Gaols Great War Forum 22 April 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2018.