Captain Daudi Chwa II with his Aide Lieutenant Prince Yusuf Suuna Kiweewa Kabaka Daudi Chwa II of Buganda Daudi Chwa II was born in...

The trolley route from Mkalamo south to Handeni. From Mkalamo the trolley line ran south to Handeni and the Germans withdrew down the...

This follows on from THE BRITISH ADVANCE FROM MBUYUNI TO THE SOUTH OF LAKE JIPE Lembeni Station with the Ngulu Gap above the water tank...

Lake Jipe with the Northern Pare Mountains in the background In Spring 1916 when the British advance into German East Africa (Tanzania)...

Mwanza headland at sunset This article follows the one on the capture of Ukerewe Island. The port of Mwanza was the obvious next target...

Whilst the main British attack into German East Africa (Tanzania) was delivered from the Taveta region of British East Africa (Kenya),...

The Suba River above Jasin in dry weather PLEASE REFER TO THE ARTICLE "THREE INDIAN ORDERS OF MERIT AWARDED FOR HARD FIGHTING AT JASIN"...

The well-defended Reata summits - a part of the 3 KAR objective in the attack In early March 1916 General Smuts, commanding British...

The Mbuyuni battlefield from the German positions. The German machine guns dominated the ground. The KAR advanced on the British left...

Unterer Himo hill viewed from the west By mid-March 1916 British forces had successfully crossed into German East Africa (Tanzania) from...

Looking towards Epiron from the north-east. Kilimanjaro in the right background. In early 1915 German patrols regularly came down from...

The site of the old crossing over the Kagera River at Kyaka. The laid-out laundry marks the old northern approach route to the crossing....

Hidden by trees and on the edge of the Serengeti National Park in north-eastern Tanzania (formerly German East Africa) is a substantial...

Nairobi HQ planned to disband the Somali Scouts (see Somali Scouts article) and place Captain Berkeley Cole in command of a company of...

On the nights of 9th and 12th February 1915 attacks were made on the Uganda Railway bridge at mile 521 between Nairobi & Kisumu, a...

An Askari of the Schutztruppe - the local German Army When World War I started 1st King's African Rifles (1 KAR) from Nyasaland (Malawi)...

Non-commissioned officers (NCOs) in the Somali Scouts Amongst the new units formed in British East Africa after the start of World War I...

Traditional architecture in the Mara region Ross's Scouts was a European mounted unit formed in British East Africa (BEA) after the...

Map showing location of Mafia Island On 30 October 1914 the Royal Navy had ascertained that the German cruiser KONIGSBERG was in the...

Longido Mountain lay 10 miles south of Namanga, the British East Africa post on the border with German East Africa (see the map in the...