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East Africa (First World War)

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Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/navyeverywhere00cato ''The Navy Everywhere''] by Conrad Cato 1919. Archive.org Includes "The Navy in East Africa"
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs'']. Select ''Volume 2: East Africa to July 1916. Cameroons 1914'', to download a pdf. Published London c 1920. Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs)
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes East Africa and the Cameroons.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library. HMS Severn of the Royal Navy in East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromdartmouthtod00unse ''From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles, a midshipman's log, edited by his mother''] 1916 Archive.org. Includes two chapters on East Africa. Note: the first page of the Foreword advises that due to tradition, the names of officers and ships have been suppressed- those of the midshipmen mentioned are all fictitious.
*[https://archive.org/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
====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 1931. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Lacks maps and illustrations.
*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/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.
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