Contains also: - Appointment as speaker and transfer to governorate of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a; 1981-87 drawing; retro-conversion of the Findkartei 2000-2002

description: Slip of paper stuck on: 'Southwest corner of Kilobära Peninsula, about 15 1/2 km northwest of Bismarckburg. Judging by the sharp-edged and planar outlines, the outcropping rock also appears to be quartz porphyry.'Photography

description: Label affixed: "Southwest corner of the Kilobära peninsula, about 15 1/2 km northwest of Bismarckburg. According to the sharp-edged and flat contours, the rock also seems to be Qurzporphyr. "Photography

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Southampton: SS Windhuk (German East-Africa Line) travelling from South Africa to Southampton. Embarking at Durban, Beira, Dar-es-Salaam and Lisbon. Official number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Windhuk (German East-Africa Line) travelling from Durban to Southampton. Embarking at Kilindini, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanga, Mombasa and Tangier. Official Number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Prinzregent (German East-Africa Line) travelling from Durban to Southampton. Embarking at Lourenco Marques, Beira, Chinde, Kilindini and Dar-es-Salaam. Official number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Prinzessin (German East-Africa Line) travelling from Durban to Hamburg. Embarking at Dar-es-Salaam, Swakopmund and Cape Town. [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Gertrud Woermann (Woermann Line) travelling from Durban to Southampton. Embarking at Kilindini and Dar-es-Salaam. Official number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Gertrud Woermann (Woermann Line) travelling from Durban to Southampton. Embarking at Durban, Lourenco Marques, Beira, Chinde, Kilindini, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanga, Port Said, Naples and Tangiers. Official Number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Gertrud Woermann (German East-Africa Line) travelling from Durban to Southampton. Embarking at Durban, Lourenco Marques, Beira, Chinde, Kilindini, Zanzibar, Dar-es-Salaam, Naples, Tangier and Lisbon. Official Number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS general (German East-Africa Line) travelling from South Africa to Southampton. Embarking at Cape Town, Chinde, Mozambique, Kilindini and Dar-es-Salaam. Official number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Gascon (Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd) travelling from Mombasa to Southampton. Embarking at Durban, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar and Mombasa. Official Number: 106907. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Feldmarschall (Deutsche Ost Afrika Linie) travelling from Africa to Hamburg. Embarking at Delagoa Bay, Durban, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar and Kilindini. [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Carisbrooke Castle (Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd) travelling from Durban [Natal] to Southampton. Embarking at Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Killindini, Port Said and Alexandria. Official Number: 108351. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Burgermeister (German East-Africa Line) travelling from Durban to Southampton. Embarking at Dar-es-Salaam and Port Said. Official Number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Adolph Woermann (Deutsche Ost Afrika Linie) travelling from Africa to Hamburg. Embarking at Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Delagoa Bay, Durban, Lisbon, Chinde, Tangier and Mombasa. [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Adolf Woermann (German East-Africa Line) travelling from Durban to Southampton. Embarking at Dar-es-Salaam, Suez, Port Said and Marseilles. Official Number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

Southampton: SS Admiral (German East-Africa Line) travelling from Durban to Hamburg. Embarking at Dar-es-Salaam, Beira, Durban, Cape Town, Swakopmund and Las Palmas. Official Number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton.

No 59. 6 pp. ND (February 1917) No 60. 8 pp. 17 March 1917 No 61. 3 pp. 29 March 1917 No 62. 6 pp. 13 April 1917 No 63. 8 pp. 4 May 1917 No 64. 4 pp. 17 May 1917 No 65. 1 p. 19 May 1917 No 66. 2 pp. 4 July 1917 No 67. 2 pp. 4 July 1917 No 68. 1 p. 12 July 1917 No 69. 1 p. 19 July 1917 No 70. 1 p. 25 July 1917 No 71. 4 pp. 12 August 1917 No 72. 1 p. 26 August 1917 No 73. 2 pp. 5 October 1917 No 74. 2 pp. 25 October 1917 No 75. 3 pp. 15 November 1917 No 76. 14 pp. 1 January 1918 No 77. 4 pp. 6 January 1918 Writing during the troopship voyage to South Africa, Mountfort reflects on his year's service in France and concludes: If the hardships had not been mitigated by the society of real good fellows, many of whom I am glad to think will be my friends in after life - "though some are fallen asleep" - I honestly don't know if I could have endured them, though I suppose I could (No 59). On his arrival in South Africa he was posted to the 25th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers - the "Frontiersmen" - who had been serving with the East African Expeditionary Force, but were now doing garrison duties while they were being brought back up to strength. The local people looked after them very well since, writes Mountfort, "out here a private soldier is assumed to be as likely as not a gentleman" (29 March), but the garrison duties at Wynberg and Cape Town Castle brought in their wake "the increase in discipline and strict attention to all the piffling little trifles that constitute three fourths of the evils of army life" (13 April). He sought consolation in the fact that ". until the end of the war Africa seems to be a much more desirable spot than Europe" (4 May). The 25th Royal Fusiliers eventually returned to active service in East Africa in July 1917 and Mountfort's first impressions of his new theatre of operations were far from favourable. "This coast is a fever-stricken hole.. however I pump quinine into myself and keep smiling" (4 July). The climate proved as much of an adversary as the Germans and August found Mountfort in a comfortable base hospital at Dar-es-Salaam recovering from a bout of dysentry. At the end of the month he was back at Lindi waiting to go up the line and, by the time of his next letter (5 October), he was ". well out in the bush and life is not exactly a continuous whirl of pleasure." A stiff action with the Germans and the ravages of the "horrible, infernal climate" made serious inroads into the Battalion's strength and by November Mountfort, mentally and physically exhausted, was burdened by the onerous responsibilities of being acting CQMS. The final two letters were written from a hospital in Durban, where he was convalescing after an attack of fever. Out of 200 men in his Company, only seventeen had been able to march into the camp at Lindi at the beginning of December after their operations in the bush. On a brighter note, Mountfort gives an entertaining description of some of the troops with whom the 25th Royal Fusiliers had served in East Africa and an amusing account, of a "surprise" landing up the Lukuledi River carried out by the 'Silent Navy.'

Photographer: Dr. Mergner?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 5.8 X 8.1. Description: Source walled in, with grid, suspended. Plants. Remark: Negative property Dr. Mergner.

Contains above all: Invitation to a lecture by Dr. Walter Busse, helper at KGA and lecturer, on a botanical research trip to D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a , 1901

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