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***[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/konigsbergadventure/page/225/mode/2up Chapter 11 "Tanganyika Tactics"] page 225 ''The "Königsberg" Adventure'' by E. Keble Chatterton 1932 Archive.org.
***[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasmutsin00whitrich ''With Botha and Smuts in Africa''] by W Wittall Late Lieutenant–Commander, RN, Armoured Car Division 1917 Archive.org. Also includes South West Africa.
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs'']. Select ''Volume 2: East Africa to July 1916. Cameroons 1914'', to download a pdf. Published London c 1920. Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs)
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. HathiTrust Digital Library. Includes East Africa and the Cameroons. [https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 HathiTrust Digital Library. HMS Severn of the Royal Navy in East Africa. [https://archive.org/details/severnssaga/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version].:[https://archive.org/details/konigsbergadventure/page/n9/mode/2up ''The "Königsberg" Adventure''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1932 Archive.org. Includes content about the Tanganyika Naval Expedition, refer above, and the gunboats 'Mimi' and 'Toutou' in the chapter commencing page 225.
*[https://archive.org/details/earlybird00moor/mode/2up ''Early Bird''] by Major W G Moore 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was a Naval airman during WW1, who flew from the Navy's first Aircraft Carrier, 'Furious'. He also took part in the East African Campaign, with a seaplane squadron.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromdartmouthtod00unse ''From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles, a midshipman's log, edited by his mother''] 1916 Archive.org. Includes two chapters on East Africa. Note: the first page of the Foreword advises that due to tradition, the names of officers and ships have been suppressed- those of the midshipmen mentioned are all fictitious.
