The Heroes
of the East African Campaign

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

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.

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