General A.R. Hoskins, C.M.G., D.S.O

[KONDOA]

Hoskins was at one time in charge of the 8th Brigade at Ypres and later turns up in East Africa until early 1917 before taking up a new command.

What was that new command??

Roop

[Koots]

Hello Roop

From:

http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/northeast_african.../6.1simpson.pdf

Fortuitously, it was at that very time that Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, pressured by Smuts and apparentlyhoping to appease South African political interests, relieved Hoskins of his command in East Africa and replaced him with an Afrikaner, Lieutenant General Louis Jacobus van Deventer. *107

*107. Hoskins was sent to command a division in Mesopotamia. Hodges, The Carrier Corps, 51; 62; 65–66 (see footnote 19); and Farwell, The Great War, 321–22.

Also:

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchro...94/parsons.html

Somaliland:

In early 1919, Britain's War Office sent Maj Gen Sir Reginald Hoskins, commander in chief, East Africa, to Somalia to plan a campaign to resolve the situation once and for all. When the British government ruled that Hoskins's plan was too expensive, Royal Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard proposed a plan that relied on the RAF to attack the mullah's forces. Trenchard's plan combined aerial punishment with ground-based "mopping-up" attacks by camel-mounted levies.

From: www.regiments.org/regiments/africaeast/regts/kar.htm

Inspector General:The King's African Rifles

1913.08.15 Col. Arthur Reginald Hoskins

and

Colonel: The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)

1921.11.09 Maj-Gen. Sir Arthur Reginald Hoskins, KCB, CMG, DSO

From Honours and Awards Army, Navy and Air Force 1914 - 1920:

Hoskins, Maj,-Gen. Sis A. R. K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., psc.,qs.

Foreign awards: St. Anne, 2nd Clas, with swords (Russia). Medjidieh, 4th Class. Nile, 2nd Class (Egypt).

I've enjoyed the search. I've learned something about the war in East Africa.

Regards

Koots

[KONDOA]

Many thanks Koots, good info. Yes it is an interesting , and worth looking at to see the contrast in this capaign compared to the preconceptions engendered of the war by the Western Front.

Roop