Captain F O Cave's Army Book 489: Officer's 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. lette...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Colonel F O Cave OBE MC
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, W'ton) to H E S 31.10.41. 5 mss letters from Alvin and Saidee Hatch (Morgan Hill, California) to H E S 6.1...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> H E Strong
Midshipman's journal (128pp) covering his service in the battleship HMS GOLIATH (September 1914 - March 1915) including her passage from the United Kingdom to India and then, as a convoy escort, to Mombasa (September - October) and her operat...
18 topographical and personal photographs from German East Africa including some of Frederick Johnson; also one painting of a landscape from the same area.
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Lieutenant F Johnson FRGS
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,...
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...
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
Philip Kerr (1886-1941) was working at the Crown Mines in South Africa when the war broke out, and at Johannesburg on 26 September he enlisted as a Trooper in E Squadron of the Imperial Light Horse. After barely a fortnight's training, the Im...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Captain P W Kerr MVO
Album of press-cuttings. Events on the Western Front, in Africa and India 1914-18 Box containing press-cuttings. All theatres of war. 1914-18 'The Times' History and Encyclopaedia of the War. 'The Campaign in German East Africa'...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Lieutenant Colonel G H Cooke OBE >> Subject Files
In August 1917, at the end of two months in dockyard hands, a new Captain, B S Thesiger, was appointed to the Inflexible and she proceeded to Scapa Flow for working-up exercises with the Grand Fleet. After so little activity for so long, Lee noted...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> A Lee
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, t...
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
This group of records consists of typescript copies of the War Diary, usually compiled at the end of each month, of the Nyasaland and North-Eastern Rhodesia Frontier Force (abbreviated to Nyasa-Rhodesia Frontier Force) while serving in German East...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Major General Sir Edward Northey GCMG CB
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...
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...
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...
File of 8 letters to his mother from Senior Officer's 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.
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Lieutenant Colonel G H Cooke OBE >> BOX 4 PAPERS RELATING TO ERNEST COOKE (killed 26.4.1916) and miscellaneous letters. >> 4 letters with illegible signatures
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...