The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

Author:Sir Hugh Charles Clifford [Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-06T22:00:00+00:00

GOLD COAST REGIMENT.

Men in marching order.

To face p. 160.

During October 9th, as on the two preceding days, the advance of No. 1 Column had been accomplished without incident.

Eight miles down the road from Mnero Mission Station, to the east and slightly to the south of that place, lies Ruponda, where yet another large food depôt was known to have been established by the enemy, and this was now the Column’s immediate objective.

Having quitted the banks of the Mbemkuru, the British troops were once again dependent upon water-holes, but the country was here less arid than it had been further north between Narungombe and Nahunga; and at Mnero itself, and thence all along the line of march eastward and southward, a sufficient, and at times even an abundant, supply of water was available either in existing water-holes or to be obtained by digging.

With the quitting of Mbemkuru Valley and the push to the south upon which No. 1 Column was now embarked, the second phase of the advance may be said to have ended and the third phase to have begun.

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