Launch of the WW1 END of East African campaign commemoration in Nairobi Kenya

1. “They gave their tomorrow so that we could have our today....
forever treasured and remembered.”
TSAVO BATTLEFIELDS COMMITTEE
cordially invites
YOU
for the launch of
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14 JUNE @ 6.30 PM
NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA
1918 – 2018
First World War Centenary
Commemorating
the end of the East African Campaign
1918 – 2018
First World War Centenary
Commemorating
the end of the East African Campaign
Countries across the world will be commemorating the centenary of the end of the First
World War in November 2018. More importantly, remembering and honouring the gallant
lives of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect the sovereignty of their Nations.
Here in Kenya we will be remembering, not only the International forces who took part in
the East African Campaign but also the African soldiers, porters and bearers who never
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After invading British East Africa on the 15 August 1914, German Schutztruppe troops
from German East Africa occupied an area from the border town of Taveta to the Tsavo
West National Park in Taita Taveta County, for 18 months before the combined Allied
force of British, South African, Indian and the Kings African Rifles with thousands of
Kenyan porters drove the Schutztruppe back into Tanzania. The Germans took the Allied
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forces through Eastern Africa to Zambia, where on 25 November 1918, fourteen days
after the armistice was signed in Europe, Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck finally laid
down his armsendinganincredibleguerrillacampaign.
The Tsavo Battlefields Committee and various partners will be holding various events
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over the weekend of the 23 to the 25 November 2018 to commemorate and celebrate the
end of the East African Campaign, which was the longest military campaign of the Great
War.

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British High Commission
German Embassy
Aero Club of East Africa
Sarova Hotels
Guerrillas of Tsavo
Tsavo Heritage Foundation Kenya Defence Forces
National Museums of Kenya
Kenya Association of Air Operators
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
County Government of Taita Taveta
We ask you to join us in launching the build up to this commemoration, to help
sensitise the Kenyan public of the importance of the act of remembrance and to
understand the part played by over one million Kenyans in this often forgotten part of
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We invite you all to attend the ceremonies in Taita Taveta over the weekend of the 23
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to 25 November 2018 and to attend the annual Armistice Day ceremony on the 11
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day of the 11 Month (November) at the 11 hour at the Ngong Road Commonwealth
WarGravesCommissionCemetery,Nairobi.
Bethere,theyhavearighttoberemembered.
TheTsavo BattlefieldsCommemorationsPlanningCommittee
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