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East Africa (First World War)

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*"An Airman’s Experiences in East Africa" by Leo Walmsley. ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 206-207 July 1919-June 1920 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi206edinuoft#page/632/mode/2up Page 633], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi206edinuoft#page/788/mode/2up page 788], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagaz207edinuoft#page/52/mode/2up page 53], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagaz207edinuoft#page/188/mode/2up page 189]. Walmsley was part of 26 (South Africa) Squadron RFC.
:The accounts appear to be extracts from the book ''Flying and Sport in East Africa'', by Leo Walmsley 1920, (stated elsewhere to have been printed with a small print run) available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012166544 and also available to those in North America, etc on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009013492 Hathi Trust Digital Library] or [https://books.google.com/books/about/Flying_and_Sport_in_East_Africa.html?id=M6NBAAAAYAAJ Google Books].
:[https://archive.org/details/turnoftide0000walm/page/n7 ''Turn of the Tide''] by Leo Walmsley 1945. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Contains [https://archive.org/details/turnoftide0000walm/page/104/mode/2up/ a chapter on WW1 in East Africa from page 105]. Published in England under the title ''So Many Loves''.
:''Shells and bright stones : a biography of Leo Walmsley'' by Nona Stead, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007454401 is elsewhere stated to contain information about East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/stream/warinafrica1914100onei#page/n11/mode/2up ''The War in Africa, 1914-1917, and in the Far East, 1914''] by H C O’Neil 1918 Archive.org
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