This enabled it to send reports of Allied naval movements around the coast of Africa. The British feared ... carved up between Britain and France. WW1: How did an artist help Britain fight the ...
375 Webley and Scott hunting rifle and fired the shot that killed a German soldier, Herr Friedrich Broecker, who became the first causality of WWI in East Africa. In the meantime, some of the ...
Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...
Located less than three kilometres from the Kenya-Tanzania border, the old police station made history as the site where the first shot signalling the start of the East African campaign of the ...
The 1,772 men worked in dangerous and gruelling non-combatant roles in East Africa but until now, they had no known grave or commemoration. Individually engraved timber posts now bear each ...