Writing on board HMS Armadale Castle, a troopship carrying reinforcements from South Africa to Kilindini, East Africa, Furse, who was making an official visit to the Union forces in German East Africa, describes the services and recreations which ...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Lieutenant Colonel R B Turner CMG DSO >> German East Africa Papers.
Ts diary (82pp) recording his service as a Trooper in E Squadron, Imperial Light Horse in South Africa and German South West Africa, September 1914 - June 1915, describing his enlistment at Johannesburg, skirmishes with rebel forces, the occupatio...
75 MSS letters from Carr-Gomm to his father, nearly all written from the Cameroons, and all signed Culling. Carr-Gomm, who had been in West Africa in the Colonial Service since April 1912, joined the Anglo-French Expeditionary Force to the Cameroo...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Lieutenant M C Carr-Gomm
Ronald Murrays Journal begins a few weeks after the outbreak of war when his ship, the battleship Goliath (Captain T L Shelford), a unit in the Channel Fleet, was based on Portland and was employed on patrol and shipping examination duties at the ...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Rear Admiral R G Murray CB CBE
Captain F O Caves Army Book 489: Officers Record of Services. 1915-19 Ts. report by Lieutenant-Colonel F O Cave, Commanding Officer, Equatorial Corps, Sudan Defence Force, on the Maji campaign. 100pp. 3 March 1942 8 tss. and mss. letters between L...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Colonel F O Cave OBE MC
26 ts War Diaries (263pp, December 1915 - May 1918), with attached correspondence, maps, and official documents, and 2 ts letters (12pp, March 1917 - April 1917), submitting the names of officers and men in his force recommended for a mention in d...
The USA 9 mss and tss letters from Paul B Condit (Cleveland Ohio) to H E S 1.7.40. - 20.12.44. Ms letter from William Crowley (Seattle, Wton) to H E S 31.10.41. 5 mss letters from Alvin and Saidee Hatch (Morgan Hill, California) to H E S 6.1.37. -...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> H E Strong
Microfilm copy of an informative and well-written ts diary (127pp) kept during his work with the Consular Service in East Africa, July 1914 - December 1916, referring to the confusion which the declaration of war brought to the colonies; his hazar...
An extremely well-written series of 77 ms letters covering his service as an NCO with the 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (111th Brigade, 37th Division) on the Western Front, August 1915 - July 1916, and with the 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers in S...
Collection of documents relating to his service with the Army Service Corps at the Base Supply Depot, Dar Es Salaam in East Africa during the First World War, including photocopied extracts from his ms diary refering to Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck,...
Ms. account consisting of sixteen operational reports and miscellaneous jottings noted in a carbon book at "HQ, Kings Africa Rifles" in the period just before the German surrender in East Africa. 1/4th Battalion, Kings Africa Rifles was ...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Major-General E B B Hawkins DSO OBE
File of 8 letters to his mother from Senior Officers School talking about the course work and his preparations for his lecture on the Cameroon Campaign (see above)
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Lieutenant Colonel I H MacDonell DSO.
Photograph of Cooke as a Lance-Corporal 1915 Envelope containing tickets for a passage on the German July 1914 East Africa Line from Zanzibar to Bombay. A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Lieutenant Colonel G H Cooke OBE >> Subject Files
A collection of papers kept during his service in the campaign in German South West Africa during the First World War, comprising a ts translation (7pp) of documents from the Official Gazette of the Protectorate of German South West Africa concern...
Norman King was the British consul at Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa, when war broke out in 1914. His diary begins at the end of July and the early entries reflect the confusion which the declaration of war brought to the colonies. King himself...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Sir Norman King KCMG
No 59. 6 pp. ND (February 1917) No 60. 8 pp. 17 March 1917 No 61. 3 pp. 29 March 1917 No 62. 6 pp. 13 April 1917 No 63. 8 pp. 4 May 1917 No 64. 4 pp. 17 May 1917 No 65. 1 p. 19 May 1917 No 66. 2 pp. 4 July 1917 No 67. 2 pp. 4 July 1917 No 68. 1 p....
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> R D Mountfort
Ms account (23pp) comprising 16 operational reports with accompanying notes giving time and date of each of them, sender and destination, written between 6 and 17 November 1918 and describing the part played by the 1/4th Battalion, Kings African R...
Photocopies of 140 ms and ts letters concerning his military service, 1913 - 1927, including 6 letetrs he wrote to his mother while serving in the Northern Nigeria Regiment during the British advance into the German Cameroons and his spell in hosp...
