Fellow Guild members who may be
worried that John Cotterill’s guiding skills will be getting rusty during his 6
months chasing bandits in Kenya will be reassured to know that he has managed
to recce and guide one tour during that time. A few pictures of the tour to
some Great War battlefields in central Tanzania (or German East Africa as was)
may be of interest. His 6 months end in March when he returns to UK and looks
forward to boring pals with his African adventures at the Newark weekend in
April.
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The striking Askari Memorial in
downtown Dar Es Salaam
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| Headstone of Captain John Butler won the VC in West Africa in 1914 and was killed in action in East Africa in 1916. Morogoro CWGC Cemetery |
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“Germany in Africa”. The Lutheran
Church in Dar Es Salaam
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Headstone of Commander Richard
Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgemen RN, who drowned after a desperate struggle to
escape through the mangrove swamps, three days after the aircraft in which he
was an observer crash landed in the Rufiji delta. Dar Es Salaam CWGC Cemetery.
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Headstone of Hauptmann Friedrich von Kornatzki,
brained with a knobkerrie by Captain Richard Meinertzhagen in the German
counter attack at Kondoa Irangi, if the latter’s unreliable memoirs are to be
believed. Dar Es Salaam CWGC Cemetery.
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