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**There are :[https://archive.org/details/eastafricamotorlorry/page/n9/mode/2up ''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.<ref>Gardenerbill. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/223499-mt-driver-memoir-is-there-one/ 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 at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000586760 (1928) 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 [https://gweaa.com/product/east-africa-by-motor-lorry-ww-campbell/ reprint edition, with additional content, from "The Great War in Africa Association"], originally published 1927.</ref>
:''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.*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1sizo659wZMC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 ''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
*[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8-LtY0s365tRxB0d2 ''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915''] is available on fold3.com, a pay website owned by Ancestry, located in WWII/Military Books/West Africa. This is most likely a Naval & Military Press reprint version of the book by the same title by John Johnston Collyer, originally published Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1937 (although the front covers differ slightly). The official South Africa history. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000749862 and in later reprint editions by Imperial War Museums, including Naval & Military Press.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/the-campaign-in-german-south-west-africa-1914-1915/ ''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref>
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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
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***''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915'' by John Johnston Collyer. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1937. The Official S A history. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000749862 and in later reprint editions by Imperial War Museums, including Naval & Military Press. Probably Now available online on a pay web site, refer 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 PressNow available online, see below.
===Photographs===
*[https://oncallinafrica.com/photos/ 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 [http://www.maryevans.com//lb.php?ref=36057 direct link]. [https://oncallinafrica.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/dr-np-jewell-on-call-in-africa-photo-collection.pdf 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.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=12 Contents] page viii; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=629 General Index] page 583; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=643 Index to Arms, Formations and Units] page 597; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030679016?urlappend=%3Bseq=651 Maps at end of book], after page 603.
:Also available [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].
*[https://archive.org/details/southafricansgeneralsmuts/page/n1/mode/2up ''The South Africans with General Smuts in German East Africa 1916''] by Brigadier-General J J Collyer, originally published 1939. Archive.org. Generally considered to be the "Official" South African account.
*[https://archive.org/details/tiprununtoldtrag0000paic/mode/2up ''Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa''] by Edward Paice 2008 edition, first published 2007. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
: Also published in USA with the title [https://archive.org/details/worldwariafrican0000paic_e4i2/mode/2up ''World War I : the African Front''] with additional cover title ''An Imperial War on the African Continent'' 2010. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
:[https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/SouthAfrica/Sappers-I/Sappers-1.html 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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on East Africa.
* ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War'' by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 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. [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n273/mode/2up "East Africa"], page 253.
***[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol014ds.html "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<ref>Guest Karin Eldredge [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/173482-royal-naval-expedition-to-lake-tanganyika/?do=findComment&comment=2498471 Royal Naval Expedition to Lake Tanganyika] ''Great War Forum'' 26 February 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2023.</ref>.
*''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/browsepublication/933/251military-books/hTGb85NZ8zdzOfWaRVpBjFOt2 browse online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], (located in Military books/East Africa). [https://www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk/_site/custom/database/default.asp?a=viewIndividual&pid=2&person=4087 Biographical details] europeansineastafrica.co.uk.
*[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/details/withbothasmutsin00whitrich ''With Botha and Smuts in Africa''] by W Wittall Late Lieutenant–Commander, RN, Armoured Car Division 1917 Archive.org. Also includes South West Africa.
:[https://archive.org/details/lifeoffrederickc00milluoft ''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/eastafricanforce00fend ''The East African Force 1915-1919; an unofficial record of its creation and fighting career; together with some account of the civil and military administrative conditions in East Africa before and during that period''] by Brigadier General C P Fendall 1921 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022533734.0x000002 British Library Digital Collection edition] where the images may be rotated.
* Articles from ''The History of the Royal West African Frontier ForceArmy Quarterly'' , all Archive.org.**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv5-1922/page/11/mode/2up "With No. 2 Column German East Africa 1917"] by Brigadier–General R T Ridgeway, page 12 by Colonel A. Haywood and Brigadier F[https://archive.Aorg/details/armyquarterlyv5-1922/page/n263/mode/2up Part 2] page 247 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 5, 1922 October- 1923 January.S**[https://archive.Clarkeorg/details/armyquarterlyv7-1923/page/109/mode/2up "From Rumbo to the Rovuma. 1964The Odyssey of “One” Column in East Africa in 1917"] By Colonel G M Orr, Indian Army(retired), late Commandant “One” Column page 109 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 7, 1923 October- 1924 January. *:[https://webarchive.org/details/armyquarterlyv9-1924/page/285/mode/2up "Smuts v. Lettow. A Critical Phase in East Africa; August to September, 1916"] by Colonel G M Orr, Indian Army (retired) page 287 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 9, 1924 October- 1925 January.*:[https://archive.org/webdetails/armyquarterlyv11-1925/page/281/20181011062612mode/http2up "Random Recollections of East Africa, 1914-1918"] by Colonel G M Orr, Indian Army (retired) page 282 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 11, 1925 October- 1926 January.*:[https://libarchive.militaryarchiveorg/details/armyquarterlyv13-1926/page/49/mode/2up "Von Lettow’s Escape into Portuguese East Africa 1917"] by Colonel C M Orr page 50 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 13, 1926 October- 1927 January.co*[https://archive.ukorg/details/loyalnorthlancashirereg/librarypage/Miscellaneous-Volumesn7/librarymode/2up ''TheLoyal North Lancashire Regiment Volume 2 1914-1919''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1933. Archive.org. Includes East Africa.* ''The History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force'' by Colonel A. Haywood and Brigadier F.A.S.Clarke. 1964. [https:/ Archive/web.archive.org version]. [/web/20220329013439/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Transcribed version], lib.militaryarchive.co.uk, now archived.
*[https://archive.org/details/withnigeriansing00down ''With the Nigerians in German East Africa''] [Nigeria Regiment] by Captain W D Downes 1919 Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi203edinuoft#page/324/mode/2up "Beho Chini"] [Bweho Chini] by ‘Ba-Ture’ page 324 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 203 January-June 1918. Archive.org. Nigerians in German East Africa
:[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonialbibliothek/content/titleinfo/7788118 ''Tome III: La campagne de Mahenge (1917) : événement de l'année 1918''] . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahenge_offensive Mahenge offensive] Wikipedia.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1sizo659wZMC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 ''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.
*[http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/title/zdb/23820457/ ''Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung''] [German East African Newspaper]. German language. Online editions to 18 August 1916. staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
====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.
*[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/withbothasarmy00robirich ''With Botha's Army''] by J P Kay Robinson 1916 Archive.org
*[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
*[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
====Togoland and the Cameroons====
*Also see some books listed under East Africa above.
*''European War. Gold Coast. Correspondence Relating to the Military Operations in Togoland. April 1915'' by [Great Britain] Houses of Parliament. HMSO 1915. [https://archive.org/details/military-operations-togoland-1915/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PbY-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books]
*French Official Histories: [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=11&ref=FRSHD_AFGG_ead ''Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre''] sga.defense.gouv.fr. Includes ''Tome IX. Les fronts secondaires. Deuxième volume. Les campagnes coloniales : Cameroun. - Togo. - Opérations contre les Senoussis''. With online maps (Cartes).
*[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv12-1926/page/315/mode/2up "The Anglo-French Occupation of Togoland 1914"] by A J Reynolds page 315 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 12, 1926 April- July. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv14-1927/page/393/mode/2up "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
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Naval Operations'' [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations01corb Volume I] by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett 1920 includes the Cameroons. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/716/mode/2up "Doing Her Bit. An Account of a Cruiser’s Operations in the Cameroons"] by Guns.Q.F.C. page 717 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-December 1915. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/correspondencere00grea ''Correspondence relative to the alleged ill-treatment of German subjects captured in the Cameroons''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament November 1915 HMSO London 1915 Archive.org.
*[https://www.fold3.com/browsepublication/251933/hTGb85NZ8military-LtY0s36phLNTLGg books/browse ''The Great War in West Africa''] by Edmund Howard Gorges, Commandant West African Regt, originally published c 1916, is available on fold3.com, a pay website owned by Ancestry, located in Military Books (locate from the Search)/West Africa. This is an online version of a Naval & Military Press reprint edition.<ref>
[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/great-war-in-west-africa/ ''Great War in West Africa''] by Edmund Howard Gorges, originally published c 1916. Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref>
