The Heroes
of the East African Campaign

As the railway line moved westwards from Voi towards Taveta a big camp was built half-way at Maktau...

The Mombasa to Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) railway line had been constructed between 1896 and 1902, and over 36,000 workers had been recruited

Mombasa District HQ, ordered 2nd Bn The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Bura to organize the Battalion Machine-guns as a separate unit

The British plan for seizing Dar Es Salaam was to advance south from Bagamoyo whilst a fourth column moved southwest to Ngerengere.

Many brave deeds were performed during that night, and machine gunners, a signaller and an artilleryman were later awarded DCM

The raid was a success - the first notable British success in the East African Campaign.

the heavy machine gun fire of the British armoured cars, whilst not very accurate because of the thick bush, demoralised the German Askari

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.

On 3rd January 1915 British Intelligence reported that the Schutztruppe in the Lake Victoria area was crossing the British East Africa borde

On 29th September 1915 the The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, stationed at Bura to reports of German raiders in the area of Bridge 27.

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

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