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**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30182/supplement/7070 The Tanganyika Naval Expedition] [1915-1916] ''The London Gazette'' 13 July 1917 Supplement: 30182 Page: 7070. This incident inspired ''The African Queen'', the 1935 novel by C. S. Forester and 1951 film (starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn) and was retold in the book ''Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika'' by Giles Foden.
***[https://archive.org/stream/unitedempire09royauoft#page/287/mode/1up "Naval Operations in Central Africa"] by Commander G B Spicer Simson RN, page 287 ''United Empire The Royal Colonial Institute Journal'' Volume IX New Series 1918 Archive.org. The Tanganyika Naval Expedition.
***[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n333 "The Battle for the Lake"] by Harwood Koppel, page 305 February 1919, ''The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42''. As told by Lieutenant-- of the Artillery. Archive.org
*''Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918'' by Christopher J. Thornhill c 1937 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/taking-tanganyika-experiences-of-an-intelligence-officer-1914-1918/ ''Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918''] by Christopher J. Thornhill. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8zdzOfWaRVpBjFOt2 online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], (located in World War2/Military books/East Africa).
*[https://archive.org/details/fourthsupplement00grea ''Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, the 2nd of April, 1918''] Archive.org . The Supplement date is 5 April 1918. East Africa.
**[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/stream/truestoriesofgre04mill#page/254/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 254 ''True Stories of the Great War, Volume IV''. Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n553 "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/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n119 "Sport and War in Central Africa"] [Rhodesia] by Edward F Holland page 104, December 1918.
**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n145 "Stories of the War: What the Scout Overheard"] by “Trooper” [of the East African Mounted Rifles] page 129, December 1918.
**[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n427 "Stories of the War: Siringa’s Last Battle"] by DMKIII page 394, March 1919. Equatorial Rifles.
*[https://archive.org/details/TheMadMullahOfSomaliland ''The Mad Mullah Of Somaliland''] by Douglas Jardine, Secretary to the Administration, Somaliland, I916-21. published 1923 Archive.org
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER504873 ''Through Swamp and Forest : the British Campaigns in Africa'' [Photographs<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 1917. State Library of Victoria.
