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*[https://archive.org/details/marchingontangaw00younrich ''Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa)''] by Francis Brett Young. New and revised edition 1919. First published 1917. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.209017/2015.209017.Francis-Brett#page/n115/mode/2up "‘Marching on Tanga’"] Chapter XI, page 109 ''Francis Brett Young'' by E G Twitchett 1935 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Comments about the book.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers]], and [[Derajat Mountain Battery| 22nd Derajat Mountain Battery]], the histories available on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website). Include service in East Africa.
:Other Indian Army regimental histories see [[101st Grenadiers]]- service in East Africa, including Tanga.
:[https://archive.org/details/22ndderajatmountainbty/page/n7/mode/2up ''Historical Record of 22nd Derajat Pack Battery (Frontier Force)''] 1921. Archive.org. Includes German and Portuguese East Africa.
:[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 ArtillrtyArtillery.*[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 HathiTrust 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.
: ''Three Years of War In East Africa'' 1919. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284624 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Although the author is catalogued as Captain F R Sedgwick, the title page shows the author to be Captain Angus Buchanan, 25th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, (the Legion of Frontiersmen). Also available [https://www.wdlloc.orggov/enitem/item2021667040/17610 World Digital Library] a project of the U.S. Library of Congress], which has better images.
:[https://archive.org/details/jamboorwithjanni00lloy ''"Jambo," or, With Jannie in the Jungle; 30 East African Sketches''] by A W Lloyd, [Captain Arthur Wynell Lloyd M.C, 25th Bn Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen)] [cartoonist] c 1917-1920s Archive.org. Jannie is Jan Christian Smuts.
:[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.
