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*[http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/bibliography-detail.php?cID=KZTTWF9I&t=East%20Africa Bibliography: East Africa] firstworldwarstudies.org. Currently you are directed to the page [https://www.zotero.org/groups/55813/first_world_war_studies_bibliography/items/collectionKey/C5XVCPQ3 Africa] zotero.org | *[http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/bibliography-detail.php?cID=KZTTWF9I&t=East%20Africa Bibliography: East Africa] firstworldwarstudies.org. Currently you are directed to the page [https://www.zotero.org/groups/55813/first_world_war_studies_bibliography/items/collectionKey/C5XVCPQ3 Africa] zotero.org | ||
** Includes | ** Includes | ||
***''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915'' by John Johnston Collyer. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1937. The Official S A history. | ***''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915'' by John Johnston Collyer. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1937. The Official S A history. Now available online, see below. | ||
*** ''The South Africans with General Smuts in German East Africa, 1916 etc'' by John Johnston Collyer. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1939. The Official S A history. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000749863 and in a 2004 reprint edition by Imperial War Museums/Battery Press. | *** ''The South Africans with General Smuts in German East Africa, 1916 etc'' by John Johnston Collyer. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1939. The Official S A history. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000749863 and in a 2004 reprint edition by Imperial War Museums/Battery Press. | ||
===Photographs=== | ===Photographs=== | ||
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====South-West Africa Campaign==== | ====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. | 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. | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/campaigngermansouthwestafrica/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915''] by Brigadier-General J J Collyer 1937 Archive.org. Regarded as the official South African history. | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothainfield00ritc ''With Botha in the field''] by Moore Ritchie 1915 Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/details/withbothainfield00ritc ''With Botha in the field''] by Moore Ritchie 1915 Archive.org | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasarmy00robirich ''With Botha's Army''] by J P Kay Robinson 1916 Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/details/withbothasarmy00robirich ''With Botha's Army''] by J P Kay Robinson 1916 Archive.org | ||
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*[https://archive.org/details/doctorsdiaryinda00walkrich ''A Doctor's Diary in Damaraland''] by Dr H F B Walker , late Captain RAMC 1917 Archive.org. Damaraland was the central portion of German South-West Africa. | *[https://archive.org/details/doctorsdiaryinda00walkrich ''A Doctor's Diary in Damaraland''] by Dr H F B Walker , late Captain RAMC 1917 Archive.org. Damaraland was the central portion of German South-West Africa. | ||
*[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 | *[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 | ||
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER297638 ''Hunting the Hun in British [i.e. German<nowiki>]</nowiki> South West Africa : a series of sketches on the humourous side of the G.S.W.A. campaign''] by W. H. Kirby [1915]. The author served with the Natal Light Horse, and was previously artist [cartoonist] for a newspaper. State Library of Victoria. | *[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER297638 ''Hunting the Hun in British [i.e. German<nowiki>]</nowiki> South West Africa : a series of sketches on the humourous side of the G.S.W.A. campaign''] by W. H. Kirby [1915]. The author served with the Natal Light Horse, and was previously artist [cartoonist] for a newspaper. State Library of Victoria. [https://archive.org/details/hunting-hun-gswa/mode/1up Archive.org mirror version] | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/ReportOnTheNativesOfSouthWestAfricaAndTheirTreatmentByGermanyBlueBook ''Report on the Natives of South West Africa and their Treatment by Germany''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament August 1918, published by HMSO. Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/details/ReportOnTheNativesOfSouthWestAfricaAndTheirTreatmentByGermanyBlueBook ''Report on the Natives of South West Africa and their Treatment by Germany''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament August 1918, published by HMSO. Archive.org | ||
====Togoland and the Cameroons==== | ====Togoland and the Cameroons==== | ||
*Also see some books listed under East Africa above. | *Also see some books listed under East Africa above. | ||