Battle of Kilimanjaro

Battle of Kilimanjaro
	Part of the East African Campaign of World War I
	; A mounted contingent of the German colonial volunteer 8th Rifle Company, 1914
Date	November 3, 1914
Location	Longido District, Arusha, German East Africa
Result	German victory
Belligerents
German Empire German East Africa;	British Empire India;
Commanders and leaders
Major Georg Kraut	Brigadier J. M. Stewart
Strength
686	~1,500
Casualties and losses
109	312

The Battle of Kilimanjaro at Longido took place in German East Africa in November 1914 and was an early skirmish during the East African Campaign of the First World War.

^ the description of this Bundesarchiv image identifies those pictured as "planters from the Kilimanjaro region." In all probability these volunteer troopers were members of the mounted 8th Schützenkompagnie [rifle company] composed of settlers, their sons, plantation administrators, etc., from the Usambara and Kilimanjaro area of German East Africa.