East Africa (First World War)

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Sixth Avenue Nairobi, British East Africa c 1915 sent by John Flatman who was probably in British East Africa with the Indian Army

Also Includes some other regions of Africa.

FIBIS resources

Also see

  • East Africa for record sources and general information about British African regiments such as the King's African Rifles, and the East African Mounted Rifles.

Regimental and Corps histories

  • History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : the Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914-18 by Sir Martin Farndale 1988. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008145796
  • Cinderella’s Soldiers – The Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve by Peter Roger Charlton 2010 and 2nd edition 2018. "The Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve fought with distinction against the Germans in the First World War in East and Central Africa. The N.V.R. defended the country after an initial invasion from German East Africa and later pursued the German forces down into Portuguese East Africa and then back north." (Nyasaland is now Malawi).
The 2018 edition is probably available at the British Library UIN: BLL01019296628, although the full title is not given and the author is not given.
  • The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number, originally published in September 1920, as part of The Railway Gazette and Railway News. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the role of railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine & East Africa. Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available in a reprint edition[1].
  • Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5A, Divisions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand and those in East Africa, compiled by F.W. Perry c 1992. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006378898 and Order of Battle of Divisions. Part 5B, Indian Army Divisions compiled by F. W. Perry c 1993 available at the B.L. UIN: BLL01008151437 . The latter is also catalogued with the additional title History of the Great War : based on official documents.

Articles

External links

"Somaliland 1920: The Final Campaign against the “Mad Mullah”". Includes Indian Army troops.
Introduction; Part I. 17 January - 24 May 1916; Part 2. 25 May - 17 September 1916; Part 3.
 18 September 1916 - 26 February 1917
Article "How the Great War Razed East Africa" by Edward Paice africaresearchinstitute.org
Also see Paice's book, Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa available online below to those with print disability.

Photographs

  • Photo page from On Call In Africa 1910-1932 Dr Norman Parsons Jewell in Seychelles and East Africa. Scroll down for a link to the photographs on the Mary Evans Picture Library, including WW1 war photos which commence image 25, page 3, or direct link. Catalogue details for the photographs. Dr Norman Parsons Jewell served as a Medical Officer with the British Army East African Medical Service throughout the First World War in East Africa and was awarded the Military Cross.

Maps

Historical books online

Contents page viii; General Index page 583; Index to Arms, Formations and Units page 597; Maps at end of book, after page 603.
Also available Archive.org, Google Books.
Also published in USA with the title World War I : the African Front with additional cover title An Imperial War on the African Continent 2010. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Only available to those with print disability.
See below for the one despatch for Rhodesia, and one for East Africa.
Transcribed reports by Dr W W Pike on the medical services in East Africa in the Medical Archive gweaa.com. Includes British East Africa and German East Africa, the latter publication is titled Report On Medical And Sanitary Matters In German East Africa 1917, published 1918.
"Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)" by Captain A E Battle, RE Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
The Indian Sappers and Miners by E. W. C Sandes [Edward Warren Caulfeild] 1948. (726p). Includes Chapter XX, page 533, on the campaign in East Africa 1914-1918. nzsappers.org.nz.
Chapter 1 Salute the Sappers by Neil Orpen with H.J. Martin. Series South African Forces World War II, Volume 8, Part 1. Published Johannesburg : Sappers Association, c1981-c1982. Details the formation of the S.A. Signal Company, R. E., and other South African Engineer units who served in France and East Africa. Transcription from ibiblio.org/hyperwar.
  • The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on East Africa.
East Africa by Motor Lorry. Recollections of an Ex-Motor Transport Driver by W W Campbell 1928 Archive.org
Campbell's account is one of two known ASC MT Driver memoirs.[3]
  • A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India . Includes a chapter on East Africa.
  • The Post Office of India in the Great War edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. "East Africa", page 253.
  • Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920 1925. Archive.org version, Google Books version. Work of Royal Engineers and other staff of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.
  • "Military affairs in Rhodesia from the outbreak of the war to the beginning of 1916" The London Gazette 13 July 1917 Supplement: 30182 Page: 7067. Includes
    • The Tanganyika Naval Expedition [1915-1916] The London Gazette 13 July 1917 Supplement: 30182 Page: 7070.
      • "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.
      • "Transporting a Navy through the Jungles of Africa in War Time" by Frank J Magee RNVR page 331, The National Geographic Magazine October 1922. With Illustrations from Photographs by the author, who was a member of the expedition. Archive.org
      • "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
      • The article "A Backwater. Lake Victoria Nyanza during the campaign against German East Africa" by Lt. M A Chapman RN from The Naval Review 1921, page 287 is available online on a pay basis from The Naval Review. See Royal Navy for access details.
      • Chapter 11 "Tanganyika Tactics" page 225 The "Königsberg" Adventure by E. Keble Chatterton 1932 Archive.org.
      • Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure : the Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden 2005. USA title. Originally published in UK 2004 with title Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou were gunboats. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
      • The above operations inspired the novel The African Queen by C S Forester first published 1935, available online, refer Fiction below, the basis for the 1951 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
      • "Naval Ships Move Overland up Africa" by Comdt. D. O. Stratford. South African Military History Journal Vol 1 No 4 - June 1969.
      • The Phantom Flotilla. The Story of the Naval Africa Expedition, 1915-16 by Peter Shankland 1973 (originally published 1968) is available at the British Library BLL01003355955. This book is based on interviews with Hother McCormick Hanschell who was the doctor with the expedition[4].
  • Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918 by Christopher J. Thornhill c 1937 is available in a reprint edition,[5] which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, (located in Military books/East Africa). Biographical details europeansineastafrica.co.uk.
  • Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, the 2nd of April, 1918 Archive.org . The Supplement date is 5 April 1918. East Africa.
  • With Botha and Smuts in Africa by W Wittall Late Lieutenant–Commander, RN, Armoured Car Division 1917 Archive.org. Also includes South West Africa.
  • Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young. New and revised edition 1919. First published 1917. Archive.org
    • "‘Marching on Tanga’" Chapter XI, page 109 Francis Brett Young by E G Twitchett 1935 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Comments about the book.
  • For Indian Army regimental histories, see 67th Punjabis; 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers, the histories available on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website). Include service in East Africa.
Other Indian Army regimental histories see 101st Grenadiers- service in East Africa, including Tanga.
Historical Record of 22nd Derajat Pack Battery (Frontier Force) 1921. Archive.org. Includes German and Portuguese East Africa.
"The Devil - My Friend" by Charles Trehane, page 338 True World War I Stories 1999, being a reprint of Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Captain C H Trehane 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force), Indian Army was in German East Africa in 1917. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
Three Years of War In East Africa 1919. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Although the author is catalogued as Captain F R Sedgwick, the title page shows the author to be Captain Angus Buchanan, 25th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, (the Legion of Frontiersmen). Also available U.S. Library of Congress, which has better images.
"Jambo," or, With Jannie in the Jungle; 30 East African Sketches by A W Lloyd, [Captain Arthur Wynell Lloyd M.C, 25th Bn Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen)] [cartoonist] c 1917-1920s Archive.org. Jannie is Jan Christian Smuts.
Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers by J G Millais 1919 Archive.org. Includes two chapters on the East African Campaign.
"Beho Chini" [Bweho Chini] by ‘Ba-Ture’ page 324 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org. Nigerians in German East Africa
"A Nigerian Column" by ‘Ba-Ture’ page 779 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org.
Part of the contents of this book were included in the 2013 reprint The Shallow End of War: Accounts of the Royal Navy in the 'Sideshow' Theatres of the First World War, 1914-18
The "Königsberg" Adventure by E. Keble Chatterton 1932 Archive.org. Includes content about the Tanganyika Naval Expedition, refer above, and the gunboats 'Mimi' and 'Toutou' in the chapter commencing page 225.
The accounts appear to be extensive extracts from the book Flying and Sport in East Africa by Leo Walmsley 1920 Archive.org.
Turn of the Tide by Leo Walmsley 1945. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Contains a chapter on WW1 in East Africa from page 105. Published in England under the title So Many Loves.
Shells and bright stones : a biography of Leo Walmsley by Nona Stead, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007454401 is elsewhere stated to contain information about East Africa.
"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.
"The Breaking of the Mad Mullah" Chapter XX, page 200 Sun, Sand and Somals; leaves from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland by Major H Rayne 1921 Archive.org
Reports on the treatment by the Germans of British prisoners and natives in German East Africa … Presented to both Houses of Parliament September 1917 Archive.org
British civilian prisoners in German East Africa; a report by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War 1918. Archive.org
  • Les Campagnes Coloniales Belges : 1914-1918 by Royaume de Belgique, Ministère de la Défense Nationale, État-Major Général de l'Armée, Section de l'Historique, published 1927-1932. French language. From Koloniale Sammlungen, Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. Read online, or download.
Tome I: Introduction : les opérations au Cameroun ; les opérations en Rhodésie ; la période défensive à la frontière orientale. 1914-1915.
Tome II: La campagne de Tabora (1916) . Battle of Tabora Wikipedia.
Tome III: La campagne de Mahenge (1917) : événement de l'année 1918 . Mahenge offensive Wikipedia.
  • The Kenya Gazette Issues from 1899. (broken range). There is a small scrolling bar, located underneath the images of the title pages, which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916, however issues for the other WW1 years are available. There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books
The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.

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.

Togoland and the Cameroons

"Reminiscences of the Anglo-French Occupation of the Cameroons 1914" by A J Reynolds page 394 The Army Quarterly Volume 14, 1927 April- July. Archive.org

Fiction

Holding section

References

  1. Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number Naval & Military Press.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kotthaus, Holger. Military Maps 1915/16 from GEA online Great War Forum 12 September 2020 et al. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  3. Gardenerbill. MT Driver Memoir Is there one? Great War Forum 19 January 2015 et al. Retrieved 5 June 2018. There is mention of East Africa by Motor Lorry by W W Campbell [William Wallace], now available online and With the Motor Transport in British East Africa by Sgt. William. E. W. Terrell, c 1920, available at the BL UIN: BLL01003601763. The first title is available in a reprint edition, with additional content, from "The Great War in Africa Association".
  4. Guest Karin Eldredge Royal Naval Expedition to Lake Tanganyika Great War Forum 26 February 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  5. Taking Tanganyika: Experiences of an Intelligence Officer 1914-1918 by Christopher J. Thornhill. Naval & Military Press.
  6. Homercox. Who was Conrad Cato? Great War Forum 9 January 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  7. athelstan. In German Gaols Great War Forum 22 April 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2018.