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introduction 1 National Archives of Zimbabwe (hereafter naz), a3/11/24/5 List of Natives, exclusive of members of the Rhodesia Native Regiment, who left Southern Rhodesia on active service during the Great War 1914–1918. 2 A.E. Capell, The Second Rhodesia Regiment in East Africa (London: Simson, 1923) and F.B. Young, Marching on Tanga: With General Smuts in East Africa (London: House of Stratus, 1917). 3 L.H. Gann, A History of Southern Rhodesia: Early Days to 1934 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1965), 218–31; L.H. Gann and M. Gelfand, Huggins of Rhodesia: The Man and His Country (London: Allen and Unwin, 1964), 42–43. 4 Rhodesia Herald, 1 February 1918. 5 Calvin Ruck, The Black Battalion: 1916–1920, Canada’s Best Kept Military Secret (Halifax: Nimbus, 1987); Bill Harris, The Hellfighters of Harlem: African-American Soldiers Who Fought for the Right to Fight for Their Country (NewYork: Carroll and Graf,2002);Arthur Barbeau,The Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops inWorld War One (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974); Robert B. Edgerton, Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America’s Wars (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002). 6 Melvin Page, The Chiwaya War: Malawians and the First World War (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000), 77. 7 A.J. Tomlinson, “First Rhodesia Native Regiment: Some Reminiscences,” Rhodesian Defence Force Journal 5, no. 12, October 1919, to 6, no. 11, September 1920. This series of articles was repeated in the British South Africa Police magazine The Outpost 9, no. 6, December 1931, to 9, no. 12, June 1932. For the Tomlinson’s original diary, see naz, to 1/ 2/1/1 A.J. Tomlinson Diaries. 8 naz, b1/5/10/11, C.L. Carbutt Diary, letter from Carbutt to Secretary of Defence, 20 December 1921. notes 159 13_stapleton_notes.qxd 2006/03/27 14:46 PM Page 159 9 H. Bugler,“C Company Rhodesia Native Regiment,”The Outpost 6 (January 1939): pp. 13–16. 10 R.W.M. Langham, “Memories of the 1914–18 Campaign with Northern Rhodesian Forces,”Northern Rhodesia Journal 1, no. 2 (1953), to 3, no. 3 (1957); H.A. Cripwell ,“Operations around Mpepo,German East Africa, 1917,”Rhodesiana,no.10 (July 1964): 54–79. 11 For examples of the growing literature on Africa and the First World War, see Joe Lunn, Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War (New York: Heinemann, 1999); Bill Nasson,“War Opinion in South Africa, 1914,” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies, 223, no. 2 (1995): 248–49; Albert Grundlingh,“The King’s Afrikaners? Enlistment and Ethnic Identity in the Union of South Africa Defence Force during the Second World War, 1939–45,” Journal of African History 40 (1999): 351–65. 12 Peter McLaughlin, Ragtime Soldiers: The Rhodesian Experience in the First World War (Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1980); Peter McLaughlin,“The Legacy of Conquest : African Military Manpower in Southern Rhodesia during the First World War,” in Africa and the First World War, ed. Melvin Page (London: MacMillan, 1987), 115–36; Peter McLaughlin, “Collaborators, Mercenaries or Patriots? The Problem of African Troops in Southern Rhodesia during the First and Second World Wars,” Zimbabwean History 10 (1979): 21–50. 13 Tim Stapleton,“Views of the First World War in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) 1914–1918,” War and Society 20, no. 2 (May 2002): 23–34. 14 Page, The Chiwaya War. 15 Jonathan Newel,“I Wore Sergeant’s Stripes because I Wanted to Be One: Protest, Punishment and the Assertion of Rights in the Rhodesia Native Regiment”(paper presented to the Conference on the Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe, September 1996). 16 Harare Moyse-Bartlett, The King’s African Rifles: A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890–1945 (Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1956), 331, 348, 406. 17 Malcolm Page, KAR: A History of the King’s African Rifles and East African Forces (London: Leo Cooper, 1998), 46. 18 Brian Gardner, German East: The Story of the First World War in East Africa (London : Cassell, 1963) and Charles Miller, Battle for the Bundu: The First World War in East Africa (New York: MacMillan, 1974). 19 Ross Anderson, Forgotten Front: The East Africa Campaign 1914–1918 (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2004), 154. 20 Hew Strachan, The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 498. 21 Bugler,“C Company,” 16. chapter 1 1 For an excellent pre-colonial history of Zimbabwe, see D.N. Beach, The Shona and Zimbabwe, 900–1850 (Masvingo...
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