Posthumous Victoria Cross awarded to an Australian Officier - 3 September 1915
During a mounted infantry engagement the enemy got within a few yards of our men, and it was found impossible to get the more severely wound
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Harry Fecitt MBE, TD
- Feb 8, 2020
Somalis are joined by Loyal North Lancashire's to form Cole's Scouts - 6 April 1915
The 2 LNL War Diary for 7th May 1915 lists Cole's Scouts as on an operation with a strength of 5 officers, 98 other ranks and 1 Machine Gun.
Harry Fecitt MBE, TD
- Feb 2, 2020
The Somali Scouts
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