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Three years of war in East Africa

Chapter 18: INDEX
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A firsthand soldier’s account traces the experiences of a British column campaigning across East Africa, describing frontier and railway duties, small-unit patrols, assaults on enemy positions, long marches through varied terrain, and desperate defensive holds during the rains. It records the physical toll of fever, privation, and climate on European troops and the sharp rise in casualties during late operations. Interwoven with tactical narrative are reflections on why German forces sustained resistance longer than expected, attributing it to effective leadership, the quality and organization of native troops, greater unity of command, and logistical and equipment disparities that shaped the course of the campaign.

INDEX

  • Aden, 14
  • Aeroplanes, 29, 77, 114
  • African sounds, 31
  • Africa’s vastness, 8, 139
  • Ambushed patrol, 26, 28
  • Ammunition abandoned, 127, 132
  • Animals dying, 76;
  • exhausted, 91
  • Ants, 167, 222
  • Armour-plate tests, 111
  • Army, a mixed, 65
  • Aruscha road, 70, 74
  • Askaris surrender, 151
  • Bagomayo, 124
  • Baluchis, 66, 85, 165
  • Bay of Biscay, 6
  • Bayonet charge, 110, 188
  • Bees, 222
  • Behobeho, 166
  • Belgian Force, 124
  • Beves, Gen., 164
  • Big game, 202
  • Bird life in East Africa, 206-207
  • Bird migration, north-bound, 10
  • Birds collected, 209-215
  • Birds of special interest, 216
  • Boat-hawking vendors, 9
  • Bridges destroyed, 104, 124
  • Bridges, repairing, 83, 122
  • Brits, Gen., mounted troops, 118
  • Buck jump, great, 89
  • Buffalo, 48, 92, 203
  • Buiko, delayed at, 95
  • Bukoba, 20, 22
  • Bukubuku, large camp at, 130
  • Bush foils decisive combat, 139
  • Bush-war difficulties, 29, 138, 184
  • Camp routine, 36
  • Camp shelters, 141
  • Cape Town, rest at, 171
  • Casualties, 165, 190, 194
  • Casualties at Kahe, 84
  • Central railway, marching on, 103
  • Central railway falls, 124
  • Character and command, 233
  • Character, impulses of, 230
  • Clifford strikes, 58
  • Climate of intense heat, 34, 114
  • Coaling, 9
  • Colony lost to Germans, 124
  • Convoy sail, 4
  • Country beautiful, Ulugúru Mts., 127, 154
  • Country, cultivated, 76, 125
  • Country terribly unhealthy, 197
  • Criticism, disturbing, 237
  • Crocodile shot, 141
  • Cultivation, native, 105, 146
  • Cunliffe, Gen., 165
  • Currency, doubtful German, 107
  • Dakawa, 165
  • Dar-es-Salaam surrenders, 124
  • Dark days, 195
  • Dartnell, Lieut., V.C., 19
  • Daylight, hours of, 13, 27
  • Defu River, 80
  • Desert, march through forsaken, 71
  • Dik-dik, 102
  • Doves, numerous, 146, 206
  • Dress, typical, 45
  • Driscoll, Colonel, 3
  • Driving off cattle, enemy, 44
  • Duiker, Harvey’s, 111
  • Dunthumi River, 133
  • Dust, marching in thick, 69
  • East Africa, nearing, 15
  • Egyptian kite, 15
  • Eland, 28, 203
  • Elephants, 155, 203
  • Elephant tusks, 160
  • Engare Naniuki, 70
  • Entrenchments, Ruhungu, 120
  • Fever, more cases, 141
  • Fires not allowed, 94
  • Fly pests, 220
  • Fly, tsetse, 221
  • Food at low ebb, 149
  • Food, bartering for native, 107, 112
  • Food, German, reported short, 151
  • Food, hunting game for, 97, 133, 143
  • Forces dwindling, 113, 150
  • Freebooters, German, 51
  • Frontiersmen, 2
  • Frontier skirmishes, 18
  • Frontier stations, 17
  • Front, four-mile, 187
  • Front, nine-mile, 177
  • Front, twenty-mile, 164
  • Fuga hills, 166
  • Fusiliers, 25th Royal, 67, 177, 193
  • Game, big, 202
  • Geraragua River, 71
  • Gerenuk antelope, 101
  • German askaris surrender, 151
  • “German Bridge” engagement, 93
  • German East Africa, area of, 139
  • German East Africa threatened, 65
  • German freebooters, 51
  • German natives hired, 133
  • German paper rupees, 107
  • Gibraltar, 7
  • Gilham, Lieut., goes hunting, 97
  • Gitu, 105
  • Goanese, 76
  • Gold Coast Regiment, 129
  • Greeks, 76
  • Guaso Nyero Valley, 47
  • Guerilla warfare, Bukoba, 22
  • Guinea-fowl, 99
  • Guns, heavy, stranded, 164
  • Guns, Koenigsberg, captured, 82, 166
  • Gun-teams, sickness depletes, 142
  • Handeni neighbourhood, 106
  • Hannyngton’s, Gen., Brigade, 118
  • Hartebeeste shot, 40
  • Heat, climate of intensive, 34, 147, 168
  • Hen, pet white, 112, 115
  • Hill country, impassable, 119
  • Himo River, 80
  • Hippopotamus, 204
  • Horses dying, 73, 108
  • Hoskins, Gen., C.-in-C., 172, 176
  • Hot springs, 158
  • Houses inhabited, 74
  • Hunting at Kajiado, 39
  • Hunting game for food, 97
  • Hyenas in camp, 143
  • Indian Ocean, 15
  • Industry, need of, 229
  • Information, natives give, 130
  • Ivory, 160
  • Jungle, cruel-fanged, 97
  • Kahe, enemy strength at, 84
  • Kahe, hard fighting at, 80
  • Kajiado, hunting at, 40
  • Kanga-Kilindi range, 118
  • Kasanga, 154
  • Kasigau, occupied by enemy, 42
  • Kavirondos, 202
  • Kearton, Cherry, 2
  • Kibambawe, 171
  • Kibo, 35
  • Kibosho, 87
  • Kiderengwe, 166
  • Kihunsa ridge, 129
  • Kikuyus, 202
  • Kilimanjaro, 35
  • Kilossa, 124
  • Kilwa, 176
  • Kilwa column, position of, 179
  • King’s African Rifles, 67, 144, 177, 188, 193
  • Kipanya ridge, 187
  • Kiruru, 166
  • Kissaki, activities, 149
  • Kissaki camp, 140, 144
  • Kissaki, enemy retiring to, 130
  • Kisumu, 19
  • Kite, Egyptian, 15
  • Kitulo Hill, 176
  • Koodoo, Lesser, 99
  • Kraals, native, 146
  • Kraut, Major, 78, 189
  • Krupp gun, small, 111
  • Kwa-Beku, 117
  • Kwa-Direma, 110
  • Lake Natron at dawn, 55
  • Lake steamship craft, 20
  • Lake Victoria Nyanza, 19
  • Landing effected, Bukoba, 22
  • Leadership, 235
  • Lembeni outflanked, 90
  • Lindi Bay, 174
  • Lindi, 175
  • Lindi, return to, 185
  • Lions, 40, 53, 205
  • Locusts, 34
  • London, departure from, 3
  • Longido west camp, 64
  • Long-range guns, enemy, 130
  • Loyal North Lancashires, 23
  • Luăle Liwăle River, 121
  • Lukigura River, march on, 109
  • Lukuledi River, 176
  • Luxuries (?), 39
  • Lyall, Gen., 166
  • Machine guns, death-dealing, 80
  • Magali Ridge, 127
  • Maize, 146
  • Makindu, 109, 113
  • Makindu, advance beyond, 118
  • Maktau, reconnaissance, 27
  • Malaria, victim of, 123
  • Malta, 9
  • Mango, tree and fruit, 145
  • Masai, 48, 202
  • Masai, respect white chief, 62
  • Massimbani track, 116
  • Massassi, 197
  • Material, war, 226
  • Mawensi, 35
  • Mayani, 187
  • Mbuyuni, back to, 87
  • Mediterranean Sea, 7
  • Mgata, 129
  • Mgeta river front, 140, 144, 164
  • Mice plague, 223
  • Millet, 146
  • Mingoyo, 184
  • Mkalamo, 103
  • Mkalinso, 171
  • Mkwaya, 177
  • Mohambika, 184, 187
  • Mombasa, 15
  • Mombo, 103
  • Monitors at Lindi, 177
  • Monsoon, South-west, 27
  • Morogoro occupied, 123
  • Moschi, 74
  • Moschi area all clear, 86
  • Mosquitoes, 221
  • Mountain pass partly blocked, 128
  • Mounted troops, Gen. Brits, 118
  • Mpala, 40, 133, 203
  • Mpapua, 124
  • Mrweka, 184
  • Mssente, 116
  • Mtanda plateau, 187
  • Mules dying, 73
  • Mules, Somali, 44
  • Mules, South American, 67
  • Mwúhe River, 122
  • Mwuha River, 131
  • Nagasseni, 70
  • Narunyu, 191
  • Native cultivation, 105, 146
  • Native kraals, 146
  • Natives fearful of shell-fire, 114
  • Natives, German, hired, 133, 201
  • Natives of East Africa, 201
  • Naval gun captured, 82, 166
  • Neuralia, troopship, 4
  • Nguru mountains, 109, 114, 118
  • Nguruman mountains, 47
  • Nigerian regiment, 165, 198
  • Night attack by enemy, 78, 194
  • Night landings, 20, 179
  • Night scouting, 30
  • Nkessa’s, 133, 134
  • North Pole Star, 13
  • Observation post destroyed, 129
  • Offensive, commencement of, 68, 174
  • Officers, 233
  • O’Grady, Gen., 177, 198
  • Ol Doinyo Orok, 32
  • Operations against Narunyu fail, 119
  • Operations in Ulugúru Mts., 125
  • Outpost, Maktau, 26
  • Outpost scattered, 71
  • Outram, George, 3
  • Oxen dying, 108
  • Pangani River, column leaves, 105
  • Pangani River, down the, 88
  • Parcels from home, 38, 148
  • Pare mountains, 93
  • Patrol ambushed, 26, 28
  • Patrols, 18
  • Plantations, coffee, 76
  • Plantations, rubber, 76, 176
  • Plants collected, 218
  • Plymouth Dock, 4
  • Port Said, 10
  • Punjabis, 66
  • Raiders, heading off, 52
  • Railway, central, falls, 124
  • Railway protection, 17
  • Railway to Tanga clear, 103
  • Rains, 35, 76, 145, 164, 172
  • Ramazani, Selous’s gun-bearer, 170
  • Rank and file, 233
  • Rations, Gen. Sheppard on, 147
  • Rations very short, 96, 104
  • Rearguard skirmish, 72
  • Rearguards harass advance, 108, 131
  • Reconnaissance flanking Ruhungu, 115
  • Reconnaissance, Maktau, 27
  • Red Sea, 13
  • Reedbuck, 133, 142, 203
  • Rhinoceros, 27, 28, 30, 204
  • Rhodesians, 2nd, 93
  • Routine in camp, 26, 36
  • Routing the raiders, 60
  • Rovuma River, Germans cross, 199
  • Royal Fusiliers, 25th, 67, 177, 193
  • Rubber plantations, 76, 176
  • Rufiji, enemy retreat to, 170
  • Rufiji, postponed advance to, 144
  • Rufiji River, north of, 125
  • Ruhungu, operations fail, 119
  • Russongo River, 121
  • Ruwu River (Kahe front), 78, 82
  • Ruwu River (Ulugúru Mts.), 127
  • Ryan, Martin, 3, 158
  • Saidi-bin-Mohammed, 43
  • Sanja River, 73
  • Scouting, night, 30
  • Selous, F. C., 2, 162, 169
  • Sheep hills, 69
  • Shelled by naval guns, 92, 110, 196
  • Shell-fire, prolonged, 114, 196
  • Sheppard, Gen., 93, 106, 147, 165
  • Shombole Mountain, 56
  • Sickness depletes gun-teams, 142
  • Sickness, food shortage causes, 38
  • Single-handed adventure, 44
  • Sleep in mud and water, 85
  • Sleep lost and overtaxed, 89
  • Smuts, Gen., C.-in-C., 68
  • Smuts, Gen., pressing forward, 95, 104, 121
  • Snakes, 223
  • Snowfall on Kilimanjaro, 35
  • Soko-Nassai River, 80
  • Soldiers underfed, underclothed, 146
  • Somali mules, 44
  • Sounds, African, 31
  • South African troops coming, 41
  • Southern Cross, 28
  • South Pare mountains, 93
  • Ssangeni, 106
  • Ssonjo, 108
  • Starving natives, 196
  • Stations, frontier, 17
  • Steamship craft, lake, 20
  • Stores abandoned, 132
  • Storks, 34
  • Suez Canal, 11
  • Sunburn, extreme, 169
  • Supply difficulties, adding to, 126
  • Surrender, Tafel’s force, 199
  • Swahili-speaking tribes, 200
  • Tabora, Belgian force occupy, 124
  • Tafel’s force surrender, 199
  • Tandamuti, attack fails on, 187
  • Tandamuti front clear, 191
  • Tanga clear, railway to, 103
  • Taveta base, 88
  • Telegraph wires cut, 150
  • Thorn trees, 98
  • Tieta hills, 30
  • Tobacco, out of, 148
  • Trackless country, 69
  • Tragic end, 199
  • Transport difficulties, 75, 104, 113
  • Transport attacked, 189
  • Trees, thorn, 98
  • Trolley line, 103, 180
  • Troopship, 4, 5
  • Tsetse fly, 221
  • Tulo, 132
  • Tulo, delayed at, 140
  • Uganda railway, 17, 42
  • Ulugúru mountains, operations in, 125
  • Ulugúru mountains, seeking road, 154
  • Unhealthy area, a very, 140, 197
  • Usambara railway, enemy leaving, 103
  • Usambara railway, west of, 88, 93
  • Van Deventer’s, Gen., column, 81, 124
  • Van Deventer, Gen., C.-in-C., 176
  • Victoria Nyanza Lake, 19
  • Voi Railway mined, 26
  • Von Lettow crosses Rovuma River, 199
  • Von Lettow, forces under, 176
  • Wami River, fight at, 122
  • War material, 226
  • Watch-dog’s duties, 17
  • Water, 18, 48, 194
  • Waterbuck, 142, 203
  • Waterless wilderness, 45
  • Waterloo station, 1
  • Whirlpools, 48
  • White troops leave country, 144
  • Wilderness and night, 47
  • Wilderness country, 64, 139
  • Wilhelmstal, 103
  • Willoughby, Major Sir John, 111
  • Wireless station destroyed, 20, 25
  • Ziwani, fighting at, 183

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