Objekt EBBH/1 - Operational reports

Ms. account consisting of sixteen operational reports and miscellaneous jottings noted in a carbon book at "HQ, Kings Africa Rifles" in the period just before the German surrender in East Africa. 1/4th Battalion, Kings Africa Rifles was then in pursuit of the little force of Germans and Askaris commanded by Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck which had crossed the border from German East Africa into British Northern Rhodesia. Each report has a corresponding entry for time, date, sender and destination. Most of the reports were sent by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward B B Hawkins, commander of the 1/4 Battalion, Kings Africa Rifles. Others were sent by unknown officers: Davidson, Harris, Dirmed, or from BGGS or NRP (possibly Northern Rhodesia Police). All the reports were made for either Norforce or Kartufor. The reports deal with the Allied pursuit of Lettow-Vorbecks force in the area between Lake Tanganiyka and the Chambesi River when the Germans, reduced to about 125 white men with 1500 Askaris and 1800 bearers, were eluding capture by rapid marches. in particular Lieutenant-Colonel Hawkins was seeking to capture small isolated German detachments led by Meyer and Kohl.

Imperial War Museum Department of Documents >> Major-General E B B Hawkins DSO OBE

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