The Heroes
of the East African Campaign

On Friday 15th June 1917 The dispatch sent from Rear Admiral E. Charlton describing operations by the Royal Navy along the coast of Tanzania

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

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

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