Gold Coast Regiment

Name: The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign
Author: Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

Definition and stakes

The theme of “Gold Coast Regiment” has been addressed by authors such as Richard Cannon, Sir Charles Alexander Gordon, Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, James Grant and Sarah Anne Curzon. It is often associated with terms like African, enemy, gun, Rifles and king.

Quotes about “Gold Coast Regiment”

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

“ In this brilliant little encounter six men of the Gold Coast Regiment were killed, six were wounded, and one fell into the hands of the enemy. The latter lost three white men and fifteen Askari killed, and over thirty wounded; and the Gold Coast Regiment, remembering the fate of Lieutenant Shields and Colour-Sergeant Nelson and their men, had the satisfaction of feeling that, to use the phrase of the officers’ mess, “they had got back some of their own.” ”

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

“ Through this heated atmosphere the marching troops plodded doggedly onward, parched with thirst, and playing an eternal game of hide and seek with the attacking bush-fires. Many narrow escapes occurred, and the first-line transport of the Gold Coast Regiment was once fairly caught, the casualties including 6 oxen, an army transport cart, 2 wagons, 10,800 rounds of small arm ammunition, 20 picks, 42 shovels, one rifle, some private kit, and a quantity of rations, all of which were burned to a cinder. ”

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Source: Gutenberg

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

“ On the 2nd October, scouts sent out reported that the enemy had retreated; and patrols from the Baluchis and the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd King’s African Rifles were dispatched to the west and the south-west to try to pick up his spoor. The rest of No. 1 Column closed upon the camp formed overnight by the Gold Coast Regiment, where it duly dug itself in.
The casualties sustained by the Gold Coast Regiment in the fighting on the 1st October amounted to 5 men killed, and 3 Europeans, 50 rank and file and 10 carriers wounded. ”

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

“ The enemy south of Mihambia, however, was covering his retreat by fighting a rear-guard action with his machine-guns.
At 11.20 a.m. rations and water at last reached 125the Gold Coast Regiment, but the 350 chaquals sent were only half-full, and this was all the water available for a force of 1400 men, who had not had a drop beyond the issue made to them on the night of September 18th before they left the camp at Liwinda Ravine. The rations supplied contained provisions for the fighting men only, and left out of the count gun-carriers, stretcher-bearers and the ammunition column. ”

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Source: Gutenberg

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

“ That the veterans of the 40th Pathans fought gallantly is attested by the fact that of one of their machine-gun teams every man was killed at his post, but the rest of the story can best be confined to the experiences of the Battery of the Gold Coast Regiment and of its commander. ”

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Source: Gutenberg

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

“ Accordingly Lieutenant Kinley, with seventy-five rank and file and one machine-gun, was at once dispatched to make an attempt to ambush the advancing enemy.
This little band proceeded up the road to Makangaga, and passing through that village, sought some point of vantage from whence to attack the enemy as he marched down the road. For once men of the Gold Coast Regiment, whose patrols had so often been harassed by an elusive and invisible enemy, were to have a chance of subjecting a German force to a similarly unpalatable experience. ”

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Source: Gutenberg

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

“ On the 8th February an enemy patrol, consisting of two Europeans and forty Askari, came out of the bush on to the main road between 229Nanunya and Ankuabe at a point where a post manned by six men of the Gold Coast Regiment, under Lance-Corporal Etonga Etun, had been established. ”

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Source: Gutenberg

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

“ By this time the remaining companies of the Regiment, under the command of Major Goodwin, were in reserve upon Banda Hill, and upon the hill to the north-west of it, which had originally been occupied by Captain Poyntz in the course of his advance; and half of A Company, led by Captain Wheeler, was sent forward in support of the Pioneers. They were shortly followed by Lieutenant Piggott with one of B Company’s machine-guns, who took up a position on the right flank of the crest of Gold Coast Hill. ”

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Source: Gutenberg

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

“ The enemy suffered very heavy losses and drew off just as the Nigerians’ supply of ammunition threatened to give out. His defeat did much to shatter his morale, and though he subsequently put up some good fights before he crossed the Rovuma River into Portuguese territory, the severe handling which he received at Bweho Chini may be said to have definitely started him “on the run.”
At Ndessa Juu large water-holes were found, and the men of the Regiment were able properly to satisfy their thirst at last. ”