Ugandan Railway, Nairobi Defence Force and others

Ugandan Railway, Nairobi Defence Force and others

Bringing together those from India who served with the Volunteer Corps,Defence Forces and other groups based in the East African Protectorate (later Uganda and Kenya) I have taken the following information from: http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/293122.html At the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 there were 2 armed military units in the British East Africa Protectorate the King’s African Rifles and the Uganda Railway Volunteer Reserve. The Uganda Railway, running from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean Coast to Kisumu on Lake Victoria, had been opened for traffic in December 1901. A few years before the Great War commenced a Uganda Railway Volunteer Reserve had been recruited from amongst the European employees of the railway. The unit followed the lines of the Railway Volunteers in India & had been formed to guard the railway in the event of an emergency. The strength was around 100 men & training had usually been rifle practice. On 09 August 1914 the unit was mobilised & 60 men under the command of Captain H.V. Kershaw, an assistant accountant, left Nairobi by special train for Voi, along with a KAR patrol. For the next four months the Uganda Railway Volunteers guarded the line & bridges along the 147 mile stretch of rail between Sultan Hamud (in between Kiu & Simba Stations) & Voi. Meanwhile in the railway workshops improvised armoured trains were built for use when patrolling the line. Other Sources the site refers to: Magadi by M.F. Hill, Permanent Way – the story of the Kenya & Uganda Railway by M.F.Hill, Official History. Military Operations East Africa August 1914-September 1916., The Story of The East African Mounted Rifles by C.J. Wilson, Die Operationen in Ost Africa by Ludwig Boell This community was created in memory of my Great Uncle Ernest C Bradbury (1881-1907) of the Uganda Railway volunteers and his comrades who went on to serve in WW1

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