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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, the treatment of German prisoners and internees, and the movements of Allied ships, troops and staff in East Africa (1916 - 1919); ts Orders of the Day by Lieutenant General Lord Smuts (20 January 1917) and Lieutnant General J L van Deventer (10 December 1917) thanking the East Africa Force for their efforts; ts copy of an order signed by Lieutnant Colonel Hudson, thanking the East Africa troops for their efforts during demobilisation (November 1918); a printed invitation to a British East African veterans' banquet in London (December 1929); wartime and contemporary press cuttings; various base orders, ration sheets, tickets and programmes; postcards and Christmas cards; and several miscellaneous photographs.

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 Rifles in pursuit of the German force commanded by Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck across the border from East Africa into British Northern Rhodesia.

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 then in pursuit of the little force of Germans and Askaris commanded by Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck which had crossed the border from German East Africa into British Northern Rhodesia. Each report has a corresponding entry for time, date, sender and destination. Most of the reports were sent by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward B B Hawkins, commander of the 1/4 Battalion, Kings Africa Rifles. Others were sent by unknown officers: Davidson, Harris, Dirmed, or from BGGS or NRP (possibly Northern Rhodesia Police). All the reports were made for either Norforce or Kartufor. The reports deal with the Allied pursuit of Lettow-Vorbeck's force in the area between Lake Tanganiyka and the Chambesi River when the Germans, reduced to about 125 white men with 1500 Askaris and 1800 bearers, were eluding capture by rapid marches. in particular Lieutenant-Colonel Hawkins was seeking to capture small isolated German detachments led by Meyer and Kohl.