bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Picquet Hill, Maktau at dusk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Maktau Indian Cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com An Armoured Personnel Carrier near Maktau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com This is why telegraph poles had to be 24 feet long. Bura Hills to right & Maktau Hill behind. We are in the region of the fight where Lt WT Dartnell, 25 Royal Fusiliers, gained a posthumous Victoria Cross. Lt Dartnell was serving in the Mounted Infantry Company which was composed of men from the Loyal North Lancashires & the Royal Fusiliers. Capt JS Woodruffe, Royal Sussex Regiment attached to 2nd Loyal North Lancashires, commanded the Company & this patrol. He was severely wounded during the fighting & removed from the battlefield by Private Bristow, Loyal North Lancashires. Lt Dartnell, also wounded, declined evacuation. Three Royal Fusiliers, including Lt Dartnell, were killed in action as were five Loyal North Lancashires. One Royal Fusilier & seven Loyal North Lancashires were wounded. One Royal Fusilier & two Loyal North Lancashires were missing. Private Bristow was awarded a Distinguished Conduct Medal. The British wounded were finished off by bayonet when the Germans took the position (this was common practice unless strong supervision was applied on the ground). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KONDOA Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 The main water springs were in the Bura Hills there . Until the construction of the railway and water pipe the water had to be ferried from there to Mbyuni. Roop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShirlD Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 I am so enjoying this battlefield trip to the country of my childhood. I used to look up at that Nairobi African Memorial and wonder who those people were as we drove by. Great to see that it is still in place. Safe travel, Cheers Shirley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 Voi Cemetery contains many Loyal North Lancashire & Royal Fusilier graves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 The grave of Lt W.T. Dartnell, VC, 25th Royal Fusiliers, in Voi Cemetery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 The grave of a civilian killed by lion near Taveta, in Voi Cemetery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com In the Nyiri Desert looking towards the North Western flanks of Kilima Njaro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Buffalo amble towards what remains of Lake Amboseli, which used to be fed by Bissel River south of Kajiado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Looking towards Epiron on the South Eastern flank of Kilima Njaro. The Germans drove the Kashmir Rifles out of Epiron Post in early 1915. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com The military railway snakes westwards from Voi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com The military railway at the foot of the Teita Hills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Approaching Bura Hills where the British water supply (once captured by a German patrol masquerading as British troops) piped water westwards, initially to Maktau Camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com The Upper Tsavo near Ziwani. Thirsty infanteers soon recognised river beds by the taller trees that grew along them. However river beds attracted game. And also predators that ate game & thirsty soldiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com In 1916 Ziwani Swamps presented an obstacle to the South African mounted troops. Today the land is cultivated & a comfortable tented camp looks out onto a lake inhabited by hippo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com A crossing point on the Upper Tsavo near Ziwani. In 1914 before British reinforcements from India arrived, German troops made big sorties down the Tsavo River. The King's African Rifles fought some savage encounters in the thick bush to stop the German push. This was rough work, with little hope of successful casevac for the seriously wounded because of the total lack of roads. Colour Sergeant George Williams, a Sudanese soldier in 3 King's African Rifles won a DCM for close reconnaissance work during a battle in the Upper Tsavo in September 1914. The following January at Jasin he performed gallantly again, extracting his platoon when his officers were down. He also carried away the platoon Machine Gun as the crew & carriers had been killed or wounded. He was now recommended for a VC, but that was not approved & he was eventually awarded a bar to his DCM before he was killed in action in 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Company Clerk. A Secretary Bird in the Upper Tsavo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Boabab trees made excellent Observation Posts Tsavo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com A Desert Rose Tsavo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Bather at Ziwani Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Good DPM camouflage Tsavo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com Chala Crater Lake. van Deventer's South African Horse captured the rim on 8 March 1916, the German troops falling back on Taveta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter1 Posted 3 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 April , 2007 www.africahousesafaris.com The military railway just East of Taveta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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