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*[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
*Listen to the podcast [http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/event/great-war-razed-east-africa/ How the Great War Razed East Africa: Edward Paice on WW1 in Africa] africaresearchinstitute.org
*:Article [http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/publications/counterpoints/how-the-great-war-razed-east-africa/ "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.
*[https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/misremembered-history-first-world-war-east-africa "Misremembered history: the First World War in East Africa"] by Daniel Steinbach 9 April 2015 britishcouncil.org.
*[http://www.bsa.org.nz/index.php/stories/b-s-a-in-german-east-africa?showall=1&limitstart= B.S.A.s in German East Africa]. The South African Motor Cyclist Corps. bsa.org.nz
:[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/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://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
*[https://archive.org/details/myreminiscenceso00lettuoft ''My Reminiscences Of East Africa''] by General von Lettow-Vorbeck, [the German commander], published London, c 1920 Archive.org
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30182/supplement/7070 The Tanganyika Naval Expedition] [1915-1916] ''The London Gazette'' 13 July 1917 Supplement: 30182 Page: 7070.
***[https://archive.org/stream/unitedempire09royauoft#page/287/mode/1up "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.
***[https://archive.org/details/nationalgeographic19221001/page/n17/mode/2up "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
***[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag-1919-v42/page/305/mode/2up "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.
***[https://archive.org/details/mimitoutousbigad00fode/mode/2up ''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.***[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/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8zdzOfWaRVpBjFOt2 online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], (located in World War2/Military books/East Africa).
*[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.
*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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*More about the Tanganyika Naval Expedition
**''The Phantom Flotilla. The Story of the Naval Africa Expedition, 1915-16'' by Peter Shankland 1973 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>.
*[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.
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