When the First World War broke out, the Belgian government would have wished to keep the colony out of the hostilities. Only when German troops invaded did the colonial army join the Allies. Copy of a secret note by Lord Kilmarnock about the involvement of the Belgian colonial armed forces in the war operations in East Africa, 1916.
NAB, Archives Charles de Broqueville, no. 421.
NAB, Archives Charles de Broqueville, no. 421.
