Cinderella's Soldiers

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Thoroughly recommended for researchers and readers of the Great War East African Campaign.

Large type, many interesting photographs and very easy to read.

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Harry

Cinderella's Soldiers

A History of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve

Its formation and the part it played in the first world war

by Peter Charlton

The history of Nyasaland’s participation in the first world war has never been fully told. A newly released book “Cinderella’s Soldiers” has helped to fill this void however by relating the story of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve.

The book contains 243 A4 pages of photographic quality paper, with 15 maps and 159 black and white photographs covering the history of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve from its inception in 1902 to its incorporation into the Nyasaland Defence Force during world war two. The book contains detailed appendices with service and biographical notes on a number of the men, also medal rolls and bravery citations. It is a most useful source work for family historians and persons interested in this little publicised area.

The campaign fought in Central and East Africa during the first world war (WWI) excited little comment as it involved comparatively few men and women and these little engagements were lost in the horror of the millions slain on the Western Front of Europe. But the war in East Africa was vicious, tenacious and lengthy, the foe only reluctantly surrendering some two weeks after the Armistice was declared.

The Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve was comprised of most of the European population of the Nyasaland Protectorate and took significant losses in WWI. The NVR helped in putting down the Chilembwe Uprising in Nyasaland in 1915. They were also involved in the naval actions that took place on Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) as well as the battles of Karonga and Kasoa actually fought on Nyasaland soil.

http://nyasalandvolunteerreserve.org/