101st Grenadiers | Heroes of EA WW1

Taking Tanga & Mopping up German troops to Pangani 1916

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

Three Indian Orders of Merit awarded for hard fighting at Jasin - 18 January 1915

conspicuous gallantry in going back about 40 yards 4 times under the close fire of 3 machine guns, to bring up the side shields of his gun..

101st Grenadiers left to fight it out alone at Tanga - 3rd November 1914

During the British advance on Tanga the 101st Grenadiers a sound and steady unit, were deployed on the left of the British lines.

101st Grenadiers defend Uganda Railway against German Demolition Patrols - May 1915

British defensive measures included techniques perfected during the recent war against Boer enemies in South Africa.

Assault on Mafia Island by KAR - 8 January 1915

Lt Col Mackay developed an intelligence operation in German East Africa from his base on Mafia Island, sending agents to & from the mainland

The Loyal North Lancashire's at Tanga - 2 - 5 November 1914

In the early months of the Great War Britain decided to send Indian Expeditionary Force ‘B’ (IEF ‘B’) across the Indian Ocean to deliver...

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