The Heroes
of the East African Campaign

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

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..

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

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

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

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