Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

East Africa (First World War)

801 bytes added, 05:52, 15 July 2017
External links
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/511922.html "Oranges, Dates and Coconuts: 58th Vaughan’s Rifles (Frontier Force) in Egypt, Palestine, Somaliland and Portuguese East Africa 1916 - 1918"] by Harry Fecitt. ''Harry’s Sideshows'' kaiserscross.com. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
*"East African Campaign 1914 – 1918: Faridkot Sappers & Miners" by Richard Sneyd [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FCampaign-East-Africa-Copy-for-GWAA-site.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Campaign-East-Africa-Copy-for-GWAA-site.pdf pdf] gweaa.com. Robert (Robin) Thomas Stuart Sneyd was working as a civil engineer in Madras Presidency when he joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in March 1915 and joined the Faridkots at Voi in British East Africa in October 1915 as a Lieutenant. Faridkot Sappers and Miners were [[Imperial Service Troops]] raised, and paid for by the His Highness the Maharajah of Faridkot, recruited from his princely state of Faridkot, in the vicinity of Lahore.
*[http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1162/1178 "Norforce: Major General Edward Northey and the Nyasaland and North-Eastern Rhodesia Frontier Force, January 1916 to June 1918"] by Ross Anderson. ''Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies'' Vol 44, No 1 (2016): Special Issue - The Union at War, 1914-1953. Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
*[http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1161/1177 "Go Spy Out the Land: Intelligence Preparations for World War I in South West Africa"] by James Stejskal ''Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies'' Vol 44, No 1 (2016): Special Issue - The Union at War, 1914-1953. Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
*"A Machine Gunner's Odyssey Through German East Africa: The Diary of E S Thompson January 1916 - February 1917" ''Military History Journal'', South African Military History Society, Vol 7 No 3, June 1987 - Vol 7 No 6, December 1988. The author was in the 7th South African Infantry.
:[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol073et.html Introduction]; [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol074et.html Part I. 17 January - 24 May 1916]; [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol075et.html Part 2. 25 May - 17 September 1916]; [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol076et.html Part 3.
 18 September 1916 - 26 February 1917]
*The Frontiersmen Historian. [25th Bn Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen)]
**"Frontiersmen in their own words" [https://frontiersmenhistorian.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/frontiersmen-in-their-own-words-part-1/ Part 1], [https://frontiersmenhistorian.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/frontiersmen-in-their-own-words-part-2/ Part 2]
**[https://frontiersmenhistorian.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/the-frontiersmens-lorry/ "The Frontiersmen’s Lorry"]. Indian Army Staff at Nairobi are heavily critisedcriticised.
*[http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p4013coll2&CISOPTR=65&CISOBOX=1&REC=1#metajump "Battle of Tanga, German East Africa, 1914"]. Kenneth J Harvey, 2003. Master of Military Art and Science Theses from Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. In November 1914, British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" conducted an amphibious assault on the Port of Tanga in German East Africa
*[http://www.chakoten.dk/tanga_1914.html#n4 The Battle of Tanga – 1914] by Geoffrey Regan. This article from "Dansk Militærhistorisk Selskab - Chakoten" is in English and Danish and appears to be based on ''Brassey’s Book of Military Blunders'' by Geoffrey Regan
29,577
edits

Navigation menu