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*[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
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:[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''.
*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.
*External links
**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.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
**[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://www.imperial-research.net/gswa_oob.htm South African OOB : German South West Africa OOB]
**[https://www.wardeadregister.be/en/new-congo-1914-1918 Belgian War Dead Register] now includes War Dead from the Congo 1914-1918. wardeadregister.be
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*[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"]
*[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.
*[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
*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
*[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/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n519/mode/1up/ "Motor Cyclist Infantry in German East Africa"] page 324, Volume 17, October 12 , 1916
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n689/mode/1up "Despatch Carrying in German East Africa"] page 452, Volume 17, November 23rd 1916.
*[https://archive.org/streamdetails/wide-world-mag-1917-v39/truestoriesofgre04mill#page/254413/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/wideworldmagazi00unkngoogwideworldmag-1919-v42/page/n553 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''. Poor quality digital file.*From ''The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42'' 1918-1919. Archive.org. Note, poor quality digital file.**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoogwideworldmag-1919-v42/page/n119 103/mode/2up "Sport and War in Central Africa"] [Rhodesia] by Edward F Holland page 104, December 1918.**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoogwideworldmag-1919-v42/page/n145 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/wideworldmagazi00unkngoogwideworldmag-1919-v42/page/n427 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/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/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
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