COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

HUGH CLIFFORD.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Voyage to and Arrival in East Africa[1]
II.The Advance on the Dar-es-Salaam—Lake Tanganyika Railway[10]
III.The Passage into the Uluguru Mountains—The Battles at Kikirunga Hill and at Nkessa[25]
IV.In the Kilwa Area—Gold Coast Hill[43]
V.In the Kilwa Area—In the Southern Valley of the Lower Rufiji[61]
VI.In the Kilwa Area—Mnasi and Rumbo[78]
VII.In the Kilwa Area—Narungombe[93]
VIII.The Halt at Narungombe[107]
IX.The Advances to Mbombomya and Beka[119]
X.Nahungu and Mitoneno[134]
XI.Ruangwa Chini to Mnero Mission Station[148]
XII.Lukuledi[161]
XIII.Expulsion of Von Lettow-Vorbeck from German East Africa[180]
XIV.Transfer of the Gold Coast Regiment to Portuguese East Africa[197]
XV.The Advance from Port Amelia to Meza[211]
XVI.The Engagement at Medo[232]
XVII.The Advance from Medo to Koronje and Msalu[250]
XVIII.The Expulsion of Von Lettow-Vorbeck from the Nyassa Company’s Territory and the Return of the Gold Coast Regiment to West Africa[268]
APPENDICES
I.The Mounted Infantry of the Gold Coast Regiment[279]
II.Honours and Decorations earned in East Africa[286]
III.Strength of the Regiment and Expeditionary Force at Various Periods, and Drafts dispatched to it from the Gold Coast[290]
IV.Letters of Appreciation from the General Officer Commanding Pamforce, and from the Gold Coast Government. Resolution passed by the Legislative Council[292]
Index[295]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
Lieut.-Col. R. A. de B. Rose, C.M.G., D.S.O.[Frontispiece]
Capt. J. F. P. Butler, V.C., D.S.O.[28]
Major G. Shaw, M.C., Capt. E. G. Wheeler, M.C., Major H. Read[92]
Group of Officers[140]
Men in Marching Order[160]
Three Native N.C.O.’s[230]
2·95 Battery[196]
Sergt. Sandogo Moshi, D.C.M.[288]
MAPS
Kikirunga Hill[27]
Gold Coast Hill[52]
Kibata and Ngarambi Area[62]
Operations against Medofacing [238]
General Map of the East African Campaign[end of volume]

THE GOLD COAST REGIMENT
IN THE
EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

CHAPTER I
THE VOYAGE TO AND ARRIVAL IN EAST AFRICA

When during the latter days of July, 1914, the prospect of war with the German Empire became imminent, the Gold Coast Regiment was rapidly mobilized, and detachments took up pre-arranged strategical positions on the borders of Togoland. On the declaration of war on the 4th August, the invasion of this German colony was promptly undertaken; and the Regiment, which had been joined at Lome, the capital of Togoland, by a small party of Tirailleurs from Dahomey, pursued the retreating enemy up the main line of railway to Kamina—the site of a very large and important German wireless installation—where, on the 28th August, he was forced to an unconditional surrender.