The Heroes
of the East African Campaign

The Army requested that the Royal Navy seize Bagamoyo (a former capital of German East Africa).

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

The southern British advance into German East Africa (Tanzania) was down the Pangani River and the adjacent Usambara railway track.

This article complements the previous one on Hannyngton's Loop. Whilst Brigadier Hannyngton advanced with Centre Column down the Usambara...

Hannyngton was to continue his advance, with the South Pare hills to his right, down to Mkomazi a diversion named 'Hannyngton’s Loop'