Nairobi War Cemetery - Ngong Road
A short aerial film shot at the Nairobi War Cemmetry at Ngong Road.
HISTORY:
During the Second World War, Nairobi was the headquarters of the East African Force and the base for the conquest of Jubaland and Italian Somaliland, the liberation of British Somaliland and the sweep north-westwards to open Addis Ababa for the return of the Emperor.
The war cemetery was opened in 1941 by the military authorities. Besides the original burials, numerous graves were transferred to this cemetery from African civil cemeteries and temporary army burial grounds at Garissa, Gelib, Kinangop, Marsabit, Mega and other inaccessible places, so that it is now the largest war cemetery in East Africa. It also contains over 2,000 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
Within the cemetery is the EAST AFRICAL MEMORIAL, which commemorates men of the land forces who lost their lives in the advance from the south into Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia and during the occupation of those territories, and who have no known grave. Along with them are honoured those who died during the operations in Madagascar in 1942 and who have no known grave. Besides those who died in these campaigns, many men who were lost in the sinking of the troopship ‘Khedive Ismail’ en route to Ceylon on 12 February 1944 are commemorated here; they include a great part of the 301st Field Regiment, East African Artillery. “…Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Soldiers killed in first world war remembered
Soldiers who died during the first world war were remembered this morning in a special ceremony at the commonwealth war cemetery off Ngong road here in Nairobi.
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British and Indian Memorial, Nairobi, Kenya
This Memorial is situated in Nairobi South Cemetery.The Memorial is built into one of the walls of the cemetery. Upon the panels are carved the names of over 1,200 British and Indian officers and men. The central panel is inscribed with the words: Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell in East Africa before the advance to the Rufiji in January, 1917, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death. The later casualties are commemorated by a similar Memorial at Dar es Salaam.
History Information
During the First World War, Nairobi was the headquarters of the King's African Rifles and became the main hospital centre for the East African campaign. Nairobi South Cemetery contains 155 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, mostly in one section, interspersed by civilian graves. There are also two burials of the Second World War. The cemetery also contains the Nairobi British and Indian Memorial, a screen wall which commemorates British and Indian officers and men who lost their lives in the East African campaign before the advance to the Rufiji in January 1917.
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Kenya was a protectorate known as British East Africa under the control of British Empire. Nairobi played an important part in the British war effort, as both the principal hospital centre for the region and local base for the King’s African Rifles, a regiment of African soldiers led by British officers. This is the final resting place for more than 150 Commenwealth servicemen of the First World War, and two of the Second. Within the cemetery stands the memorial to more than 1,230 Commenwealth servicemen who died in East Africa up to January 1917. Among those named here are more than 1,100 members of Indian Army units.
East Africa and First World War
German East Africa (today Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania) was the focus of the campaign in this region between 1914 and 1918. Commanded by General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German Schutztruppe forces consisting of African soldiers (askaris) and German officers fought to divert British manpower, warships and resources from Europe by mounting skirmishes and raids across the border. In August 1914 they began to attack the Uganda Railway, which ran between Kisumu on Lake Victoria and Mombassa, and seized the border town of Taveta. British-led forces suffered several defeats, including the port of Tanga in November 1914, and German raids continued into 1915.
An Indian Expeditionary Force was sent to reinforce the King’s African Rifles, and the 29th Punjabis became the first contingent to arrive at Mombasa at the end of August 1914. By the following month, Indian troops formed around 50% of British forces in the region. They were later joined by the 2nd Battalion Rhodesian Regiment of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and a South African Expeditionary Force which arrived in early 1916. More than 40 South Africans are buried here, most of whom served with the infantry or Native Labour Corps, non-combatants who undertook tasks such as building roads and bridges.
In the spring of 1916, Commenwealth forces, along with their Belgian and Portuguese allies, began to advance into German East Africa. In the north, Taveta and Moshi were encircled and occupied in March 1916, and the following month Kondoa-Irangi was captured then defended against a German counter-attack. After the occupation of Morogoro in August 1916, the northern half of the colony was in British hands. Heavily outnumbered, Lettow-Vorbeck’s men escaped into the Uluguru mountains, fighting a rearguard action at Kisaki, then moving south of the Rufiji river.
The advance of 1916 took its tool on Commenwealth soldiers, who relied on increasingly long and vulnerable supply lines. Some 650 of those named on the memorial died in 1916, of whom some 600 were Indians. Another 120 named here fell between 1 and 19 January 1917, when the Allies crossed the Rufiji River into the south of German East Africa. Those who died later are commemorated by a memorial in Dar es Salaam. German forces fought on, finally surrendering on 25th November 2018, two weeks after the Armistice in Europe.
The campaign in East Africa was fought in hostile terrain, with limited medical care and rampant disease. By the end, African recruits of the King’s African Rifles formed the majority of British forces. Some 3,500 of the troops under British command in East Africa were killed in action, and 6,500 died of disease. Around one million African carriers supported them, some 90,000 of whom perished, mostly from disease and starvation. Africans who served, both as soldiers and carriers, are commemorated by memorials in Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and on Kenyatta Avenue in the centre of Nairobi.
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Closed stalls in Nairobi shantytown after violence
(14 Aug 2017) Many street stalls remained empty in the Nairobi neighbourhood of Mathare days after a number of people were reported killed in violent post-election clashes.
Kenya's police have been criticised by human rights activists for using excessive force.
In Mathare on Saturday, police fired live rounds and teargas to disperse opposition protesters who blocked roads and set up burning barricades.
Nine bodies with gunshot wounds were brought to the Nairobi morgue from the shantytown, according to a mortuary official, and a nine-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet.
Protests began soon after Tuesday's presidential election, when the main opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, alleged vote-rigging.
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City Cemetery Scandal
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REST IN PIECES PT 1
17TH JULY 2012
Public cemeteries in Nairobi are either nearly full or full to capacity prompting the need for caretakers of these very vital facilities to seek unconventional ways of creating space for the departed. It has brought about a new phenomenon the recycling of graves-and not just recycling, but speedy recycling after burial. The City Council of Nairobi - the institution charged with the responsibility of providing land is yet to show initiative in this regard. Charity Waweru reports.
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KENYA: NAIROBI: FUNERALS HELD FOR BOMB BLAST VICTIMS (2)
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While the investigation to unmask the mystery bombers in East Africa entered its second week, Kenyans buried their dead and sought to endure what one mourner called their undeserved grief.
Funeral services were being held on Saturday across Kenya for the 247 nationals who died in the blast.
Meanwhile, U-S investigators took a television crew on a tour of the U-S Embassy in the capital Nairobi, which was devastated by the bomb.
Another sad day in Kenya, as funerals were held on Saturday for the victims of the U-S Embassy bombing.
At Langata Cemetery, hundreds of mourners remembered Alice Ndutu Gachiri, a government secretary who was killed while at work on the third floor of Cooperative Bank House, which towers above a parking lot where the car bomb exploded.
Watching shovels of dirt fall onto his 36-year-old sister's coffin, Peter Njao remembered her as our guiding light.
The family expressed anger at her unknown killers.
Brother Edward Chege thanked God for giving the family the strength to endure this undeserved grief.
Gachiri was survived by her husband, Mwangi Gachiri and daughters Grace Christine, 12, and Maryanne Wambui, 10 who wept throughout the ceremony.
Gachiri's brother said her death still hadn't sunk in.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The last week just passed like a blur because from the moment I heard the blast I was in my office. Then later I heard it was at Cooperative House. I rushed there and tried to locate Alice, I wasn't able to. From there going to the hospital, not even sleeping the whole night. Going the next day to the mortuary -- at least seeing people breaking down.
SUPERCAPTION: Edward Chege, Alice Gachiri's brother
Other mourners gathered for the funeral of Phaedra Vrontamitis, who was also laid to rest at the Langata Cemetery.
Vrontamitis had worked in the U-S Embassy in Nairobi for 33 years.
When the blast ripped through the building, she was working on the visa desk.
In a video taped message, U-S President Bill Clinton extended condolences to the victims' families, saying, We grieve together.
Meanwhile, a team of U-S investigators from the F-B-I, the military and the State Department continued to sift through what is left of the U-S Embassy in Nairobi, searching for clues.
Gregory Polmstead, an investigator with the U-S State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security took a camera crew on a tour of the site.
UPSOUND: (English)
That was a window blind which became a fine piece of shrapnel.
SUPERCAPTION: Gregory Polmstead, US Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Evidence from the site of the blast was expected to arrive at the F-B-I laboratories in Washington this weekend.
There, the F-B-I will conduct tests to confirm what explosives were used and whether the two almost simultaneous bombs in Kenya and Tanzania had the same ingredients.
The only sure thing known from the staggering extent of the destruction is that the bombs were quite powerful.
UPSOUND: (English)
The force blew down and into that wall.
Q: Is that what this would have been, these indentations?
From debris, and or shrapnel from the blast.
SUPERCAPTION: Gregory Polmstead, US Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security
U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is expected to make the same sad tour when she visits the two East African capitals to meet with investigators and console the injured.
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