Dates: 1916-03-11 – 1916-03-12
Theatre: German East Africa (Taveta / Latema-Reata ridge)
Battle of Latema-Reata (March 1916) during Smuts’s East Africa offensive: night attack by 5th and 7th South African Infantry (Byron / Freeth) with King’s African Rifles and other imperial troops. Whittall records nearly 300 British/Union killed and wounded.
Whittall, W. With Botha and Smuts in Africa. Cassell, 1917; Just Done Productions / Lulu reprint, 2009 (ISBN 978-1-920315-47-4).