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East Africa (First World War)

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Maps
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_I)#/media/File:World_War_I_in_East_Africa.jpg Map: The Great War in East Africa] Wikipedia
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/war-office-archive Guide: War Office Archive of [online<nowiki>]</nowiki> Maps relating to the former British East Africa] (modern-day Kenya, Uganda and adjacent parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia). The maps were created between 1890 and 1940. British Library website.
*[https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/military-maps?page=1&display=list Military Maps] from UCT [University of Cape Town] Libraries includes British maps of German East Africa 1915/1916 (More details.<refname=Kott>Kotthaus, Holger. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/284846-military-maps-191516-from-gea-online/ Military Maps 1915/16 from GEA online] ''Great War Forum'' 12 September 2020et al. Retrieved 13 14 September 2020.</ref>)*[http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/ruanda-urundi/ Maps: Ruanda-Urundi (1942)] U.S. Army Map Service. The University of Texas at Austin. Thought to be based on original Belgian maps from 1916 - 1934.<ref name=Kott/> 
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/7/17250 Collection 425/95 Operations in East Africa: reports of engagements, honours and rewards IOR/L/MIL/7/17250 1914-1919] British Library Digitised Manuscripts. Awards to both British and Indian soldiers. From [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=ior!l!mil!7!17250_f224r page 224] there is a description of the action which took place on the Tsavo River on 6th September 1914.
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