African campaigns

THE BUSH WAR DOCTOR - The Experiences of a British Army Doctor During the East African Campaign of the First World War by Robert V. Dolbey. Robert Dolbey, an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps—had already served on the Western Front in the early months of the Great War and been had actually become a P. O. W. at the hands of the German enemy. Now in the East African Campaign he explains—in writings originally intended for his own family—every aspect of war in this little reported theatre. Dolbey describes difficulties of keeping men healthy and the problems of saving lives under the most arduous conditions. This is an unusual and interesting perspective on war from a medical man in Africa.

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THE NIGERIAN REGIMENT IN EAST AFRICA by W. D. Downes. This is the story of the Nigerian Regiment—an imperial regiment led by British officers and manned principally by Hausa tribesmen who formed part of the force that fought the Germans in East Africa during the First World War. The account, written by one of those British officers, describes the earliest activities of the regiment in West Africa before travelling with them, across the continent, to new challenges. The pivotal battles of the campaign are described in detail together with many personable anecdotes making this an original and different view of the Great War. The book contains various appendices, including officer casualties and honours and awards.

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The East African Mounted Rifles - Experiences of the campaign in the East African bush during the First World War by C.J. Wilson. Colonial neighbours in British & German East Africa fought their war far from the Western front across country familiar today as the great game reserves. The East African Mounted Rifles were six squadrons amalgamated from hastily formed volunteer units such as Bowkers Horse and the Legion of Frontiersmen. Encounters with enraged lions, horses camouflaged as zebras, a brief period as marines all form part of this most unusual account of a most unusual campaign.

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THE LEAN, BROWN MEN by Angus Buchanan. Experiences in East Africa During the Great War with the 25th Royal Fusiliers—the Legion of Frontiersmen. There were Canadian Mounties, American cowboys, Arctic explorers, adventurers, rogues, big game hunters and sportsmen. There were famous men like Cherry Kearton, the naturalist and explorer and the grand old man of Africa—Frederick Selous himself. All these men had come together under the Union Flag to do battle against colonial Imperial Germany in East Africa. They came under the command of Driscoll of Driscoll's Scouts who performed with renown during the Boer War. These were the men of the 25th Royal Fusiliers—The Legion of Frontiersmen—and their battlegrounds were to be the great plains of Africa rich in wildlife and elemental danger. This is their story through the years of the Great War told by one of their own officers in vivid detail. It is a story of campaigns and hardship which would be equal to the best of them and lay many a 'lean, brown man' in a shallow grave in the red earth before it was concluded.

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