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,...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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
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
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 (parts 1-1V). 12 Decem...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Lieutenant Colonel G H Cooke OBE >> Subject Files
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
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
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
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...
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.
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
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...
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
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...
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 fortnights training, the Imperial...
In: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Captain P W Kerr MVO
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...