The Heroes
of the East African Campaign

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

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.

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

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.

In early March 1916 General Smuts ordered an attack into German East Africa near Taveta.

After a German attack on a bridge on the Uganda Railway, Nairobi HQ decided to send out three columns to confront the raiders.

Mwaika Hill summit consists of two parallel ridges with a shallow rocky valley separating them. Drought's Troop as leading scouts had just r

Amongst the new units formed in British East Africa after the start of WWI was a mounted unit raised by a well-known settler Berkeley Cole

The SS Sybil was one of the smaller steamers on Lake Victoria with a capacity of 700 tons and a speed of 9 knots.

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