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[coltroep]

Where has that picture be taken an at what Moment???????

KONDOA, on 13 December 2006 - 11:51 AM, said:

Our next group of pictures will be related to Tanga especially the events of November 1914.


But first the village of Mombo in the Pangani valley.

[coltroep]

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The Boma at Tanga



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The Boma at Tanga



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Can you send me the old foto of the hospital
thanks
coltroep
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[KONDOA]

Coltroep

The picture of Mombo withe the train was taken in 1912 around the time the railway was completed. Mombo is on the Usumbara railway between Tanga and Moshi. The railway is now derelict.


Any photographs I had of this trip have unfortunately been l;ost due to a hard drive malfunction. The only copies are those posted here on the forum, please use as you wish.


Roop

[ozmaz]

Was interested to see the photo of James Macqueen MC gravestone as he is my great great uncle.  He led a very interesting life and is mentioned in quite a few books:  "German East Africa" by Albert F Calvert, "The National History of South Africa" by Frederick W Fitzsimons and "Red Strangers:  The White Tribe of Kenya" by Christine S Nicholls.

In 1884 my great great grandfather received a letter informing him that James had been captured by the Boers on his way from the gold fields of Transvaal to Kimberly.

He enlisted in 1901 as a member of Steinaecker's Horses.  

As far as we can ascertain he was married briefly but unfortunately she died in 1902 in South Africa.

He must have travelled back to England because in 1915 he enlised in the 25th Battalion of the Royal Fusilers, otherwise known as the Legion of Frontiersmen led by Colonel Patrick Driscoll.

I have also been unable to find out much about when he joined the 2nd Battalion Rhodesia Regiment or his MC but it is even more remarkable when you realise that he had only one arm - the other having been crushed by an elephant in 1908 during a big game hunt.

On his death his brother in Canada printed this obituary -  "died December 14, 1917 at Dodoma, German E Africia, Capt James Macqueen, soldier, traveller, hunter, writier . . . servied in S African campaign, after Boer War wouned by elephant, but served in this war".

Maz

[SteveE]

ozmaz, on 14 February 2011 - 09:18 AM, said:

He must have travelled back to England because in 1915 he enlised in the 25th Battalion of the Royal Fusilers, otherwise known as the Legion of Frontiersmen led by Colonel Patrick Driscoll.

I have also been unable to find out much about when he joined the 2nd Battalion Rhodesia Regiment or his MC but it is even more remarkable when you realise that he had only one arm - the other having been crushed by an elephant in 1908 during a big game hunt.

Hi Maz and welcome to the forum.

Firstly let me say that as far as I can tell James MacQueen didn't enlist in the 25th Battalion and in all my research on this battalion I've yet to come across any evidence to this effect.  You may well know differently and if that's the case I'd really like to know.

He entered the East African theatre with the 2nd Rhodesia Regiment on 15th March 1915, the date that battalion arrived in theatre and a whole month before the 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers left England. I'll check Capell's history of the battalion tonight to see if it adds anything.

His MC was listed in the London Gazette #29460, 2nd February 1916, page 1337 but with no citation.  I see that James, in post #191, has referred to Capell's history already and states that it was awarded for an action at Longido.

Regards

Steve

[SteveE]

Maz

I've checked Capell's history of the 2nd Rhodesia Regiment and he states in the "Roll of Members" that Capt. James McQueen attested to the battalion on 4th February 1915.  He first gets a mention in the body of the text for 6th March 1915 when "Horses were entrained for Beira, and Major Masterman, Embarkation Officer, and Capt. McQueen, Transport Officer, went with them."

That suggests to me, as I said in my previous post, that he didn't join the 25th Royal Fusiliers, certainly not in the UK at any rate as they didn't start to recruit until 12th February 1915.

Regards

Steve

[ozmaz]

Thanks Steve for looking that up for me I will amend my information on him.  I found the information about the Fusiliers in the book "Red Strangers:  The White Tribe of Kenya" by Christine S Nicholls printed in 2005 on Page122 but not sure where she got her information from.  I am in Australia so most o f my research is done on the internet - there are supposedly some manuscripts or papers that James wrote in the National Archives in London so hopefully one day I may be able to go and read them and find out more about him.  I have copies of his medal cards but they don't have much information as far as I can see on them.

Maz

[SteveE]

ozmaz, on 15 February 2011 - 07:10 AM, said:

I found the information about the Fusiliers in the book "Red Strangers:  The White Tribe of Kenya" by Christine S Nicholls printed in 2005 on Page122 but not sure where she got her information from.

Hi Maz

I can't see that she provided a source for that particular piece of information so rather suspect that she's, mistakenly, grouped him into the 25th Royal Fusiliers with other men of similar standing and ideals.  Certainly Selous, Outram and Ryan were all commissioned into the 25th Royal Fusiliers but, as I've demonstrated, Captain MacQueen wasn't.

Regards

Steve