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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>
*[https://www.fold3.com/publication/933/military-books/browse ''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915''] is available on fold3.com, a pay website owned by Ancestry, located in 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.
====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.
