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Description: | 55 ms detailed letters written to his mother in Scotland during his service with 1st Battalion KIng's African Rifles (August 1914 - November 1918) in Nyasaland, British Central Africa (August 1914 - May 1915), in German East Africa (May 1915 - April 1917), as second in command 3rd Battalion King's African Rifles (February 1917), and his return to Nyasaland (April - November 1918), covering his reaction as a regular to the outbreak of war and the composition of his battalion, good details of the action against the Germans in Nyasaland (August - September 1914) and officer casualties, action against native tribes and the political situation (January 1915), in German East Africa (1915 - 1916), patrol duties on the frontier, trench conditions and rations, co-ordination with Belgian troops, the nature of the German troops, the action in Portugese East Africa (May 1918), native celebrations for the Armistice, and his thoughts on his peace-time career.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | King's African Rifles British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Galbraith, J E E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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