Category: Murrays Column, British South Africa Police
Categories: British South Africa Police, Rhodesia
The BSA Police was involved in two actions in Africa during the course of the Great War (WWI), in German West Africa and in Tanganyika (also sometimes referred to as German East Africa). The force was was a volunteer service established by the BSAP for deployment to the north eastern border of Northern Rhodesia. This became known as Murray's Column, which comprised two infantry companies of some 125 men. A little later a Transport Section was introduced. The Column was to become the force which fought against the Germans in Tanganyika, with Gen. Smuts' British and South African forces, being deployed mostly along its frontier with Nyasaland and eventually in Tanganyika itself.
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