East Africa (First World War)

External links

• Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign - Western Front Association.
• Harry Fecitt’s Harry’s Africa kaiserscross.com
  • The Advance into German East Africa: Indian Army Units in Action, March to mid-June 1916
  • The 129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis. German East Africa, October 1916 to January 1917
• "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
• 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
• First page only of "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.
• Great War Forum
• "East Africa", page 253 The Post Office of India in the Great War edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org
• Great War in Africa Association

Historical books online

• The War in Africa, 1914-1917, and in the Far East, 1914 by H C O’Neil 1918 Archive.org
• British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918 by Edmund Dane 1919 Archive.org