The Heroes
of the East African Campaign

On 20th June 1916 The London Gazette published a second supplement with a dispatch sent from Lieutenant-General The Hon. J. C. Smuts,...

On Friday 15th June 1917 The dispatch sent from Rear Admiral E. Charlton describing operations by the Royal Navy along the coast of Tanzania

On 19 July the Regiment advanced towards a known enemy position as part of a column manoeuvre to seize water holes at Narungombe

Saudi Chwa II requested a commission in the British Forces & was appointed an Hon Lieut in the 4th Battalion of the KAR based in Uganda.

As the railway line moved westwards from Voi towards Taveta a big camp was built half-way at Maktau...

Royal Naval Air Service Rolls Royce armoured cars that were armed with a single water-cooled .303-inch Vickers machine gun; this unit was na

The Mombasa to Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) railway line had been constructed between 1896 and 1902, and over 36,000 workers had been recruited

Mombasa District HQ, ordered 2nd Bn The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Bura to organize the Battalion Machine-guns as a separate unit

GEA seat of government, principal port of German East Africa, & the terminal of the Railway under Allied Control

The British plan for seizing Dar Es Salaam was to advance south from Bagamoyo whilst a fourth column moved southwest to Ngerengere.

The Army requested that the Royal Navy seize Bagamoyo (a former capital of German East Africa).

Supply lorries were fired upon, motor ambulances blown up by mines, telegraph & telephone wires cut.

At the end of the Spring rains in 1916 British Columns under General Smuts pushed south down the Pangani River and the Usambara railway line

High in the South Pare Mountains above Mombo was the German hill-station of Wilhelmstal

The southern British advance into German East Africa (Tanzania) was down the Pangani River and the adjacent Usambara railway track.

This article complements the previous one on Hannyngton's Loop. Whilst Brigadier Hannyngton advanced with Centre Column down the Usambara...

Hannyngton was to continue his advance, with the South Pare hills to his right, down to Mkomazi a diversion named 'Hannyngton’s Loop'

British advance was westwards from British East Africa (Kenya) through Taveta to Kahe and Moshi.

The port of Mwanza was the obvious next target for the Allies.

attack came down Lake Victoria to seize Ukerewe Island. It was important to seize the island in preperation for a later attack on Mwanza

Whilst Indian Army units were fighting for their survival at Jasin on 18 January 1915, King's African Rifles Askari were also fighting hard

Many brave deeds were performed during that night, and machine gunners, a signaller and an artilleryman were later awarded DCM

British Military Headquarters hushed up details of the action at Longido West on 20 September 1915 in order not to damage morale.

The raid was a success - the first notable British success in the East African Campaign.