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*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39912 ''Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa''] by Herbert Strang. Illustrator Wal Paget. 1919 gutenberg.org.
*The Tanganyika Naval Expedition, refer above, inspired [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.182328/page/n3/mode/2up ''The African Queen''] by C S Forester 1940 edition, first published 1935. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201179/page/n3/mode/2up Another edition], but missing at least initial pages. Both Archive.org. There was a later movie in 1951 starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
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*''Military Operations East Africa Volume I August 1914-September 1916'' compiled by Charles Hordern 1941 [https://archive.org/details/military-operations-east-africa/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ULwiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books]. Part of the series "History of the Great War based on Official Documents". Titled Volume I, however the planned second volume was never published. Compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hordern, late Royal Engineers and General staff, founded on a draft by the late Major H FitzM Stacke. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office.
*Download seems to be available from [https://classic.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200282/ior_l_mil_7_17250.html?utm_source=new-website&utm_medium=button europeana.eu] Collection 425/95 Operations in East Africa: reports of engagements, honours and rewards IOR/L/MIL/7/17250
*[https://archive.org/details/navyeverywhere00cato ''The Navy Everywhere''] by Conrad Cato [real name Cyril Cox RNR<ref> Homercox. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/210056-who-was-conrad-cato/ Who was Conrad Cato?] Great War Forum 9 January 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.</ref>] 1919. 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''
*[https://archive.org/details/generalsmutscamp00crow/page/n7/mode/2up ''General Smuts' Campaign in East Africa''] by Brig.-General J H V Crowe with an Introduction by Lieut.- General the Rt. Hon. J C Smuts 1918 Archive.org
*''History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4'' all by Major A.F. Becke (London: HMSO, 1935-1945). Most are available on Archive.org or Google Books, and all on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, which also includes a later Index volume. For details see [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Western Front- Historical books online-Official Histories and Battles]].
*''Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920'' 1925. [https://archive.org/details/records-survey-india-vol.-20 Archive.org version], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jAFEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 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.
*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]
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