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:[https://archive.org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse/page/338/mode/2up "The Devil - My Friend"] by Charles Trehane, page 338 ''True World War I Stories'' 1999, being a reprint of ''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Captain C H Trehane 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force), Indian Army was in German East Africa in 1917. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/720/mode/2up "A Side Show (to the memory of some very gallant gentlemen)"] by "Ganpat" (M L A G) page 721 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 199 Jan-June 1916. Archive.org. [Tanga, East Africa]. The author "Ganpat" is [[M L A Gompertz "Ganpat"|M L A Gompertz]].
*[https://archive.org/details/onsafari1917/page/n7/mode/2up ''On Safari. Experiences of a Gunner in the East African Campaign''] by F. C. [F H Cooper] 1917. The author was with the South African Artillrty.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742748?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Sketches of The East Africa Campaign''] by Capt. Robert V. Dolbey, R.A.M.C. 1918 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a [https://archive.org/details/sketchesoftheeas10362gut transcribed Project Gutenberg edition] Archive.org, or from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10362 Gutenberg.org].
*[https://archive.org/details/royalfusiliersin00onei/page/n9 ''The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War''] by H C O'Neill 1922 Archive.org. In addition to the [[Western Front]], includes [[Gallipoli]], [[Salonika]] and the 25th Royal Fusiliers in East Africa, from page 269.
*[https://archive.org/details/goldcoastregimen00clif ''The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign''] by Sir Hugh Clifford 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft/page/n3 ''The Story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915-1919''] by Captain Ivor D Difford [1920] Archive.org. Includes service in East Africa, and [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]].
*[https://archive.org/details/2ndcapecorpscentralafrica/page/n7/mode/2up ''With the 2nd Cape Corps thro' Central Africa''] by A J B Desmore (Abe James Bourne) 1920. South African forces. The Cape Corps were recruited from Coloured people in South Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/sportadventureafrica/page/n11/mode/2up ''Sport and Adventure in Africa. A Record of Twelve Years Big Game Hunting, Campaigning and Travel in the Wilds of Tropical Africa''] by Captain W T Shorthose 1923. Archive.org. The author was seconded to the 4th Battalion, King’s African Rifles in October 1912 and served in Uganda until the outbreak of the World War. The King’s African Rifles were then moved from place to place as necessity demanded. With the 6th King’s African Rifles he took part in the campaign in Somaliland against the Mad Mullah in 1920.
*[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. Includes "The Navy in East Africa".
: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''
