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Kamerun campaign
Part of the African theatre of World War I

British QF 12-pounder 8 cwt firing at Fort Dachang in 1915
Date6 August 1914 – 10 March 1916
(1 year, 7 months and 4 days)
Location
German Kamerun and British Nigeria
03°52′N 11°31′E / 3.867°N 11.517°E / 3.867; 11.517
Result Allied victory
Territorial
changes		 Kamerun divided into League of Nations mandates under British and French rule (1919)
Belligerents

Kamerun campaign British Empire

  • Nigeria Nigeria
  • Kamerun campaign India

Kamerun campaign France

  • French Third Republic French Equatorial Africa

Belgium Belgium

  • Kamerun campaign Belgian Congo

Kamerun campaign Germany

  • Kamerun campaign Kamerun
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Charles M. Dobell
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Frederick H. Cunliffe
French Third Republic Joseph G. Aymerich
Belgium Félix Fuchs		 Kamerun campaign Karl Ebermaier
Kamerun campaign Carl H. Zimmermann
Units involved
Nigeria WAFF
British Raj WIR[1]
Belgian Congo Force Publique		 Kamerun campaign Schutztruppe
Strength
British:
1,668
French:
7,000
Belgian:
600[2]

Total:
9,000		 1914:
1,855
1915:
6,000[3]
Casualties and losses
British:
917
French:
906[4]		 5,000[5]
hundreds to thousands of Duala civilians killed[6]

The Kamerun campaign took place in the German colony of Kamerun in the African theatre of the First World War when the British, French and Belgians invaded the German colony from August 1914 to March 1916. Most of the campaign took place in Kamerun but skirmishes also broke out in British Nigeria. By the Spring of 1916, following Allied victories, the majority of German troops and the civil administration fled to the neighbouring neutral colony of Spanish Guinea (Río Muni). The campaign ended in a defeat for Germany and the partition of its former colony between France and Britain.

  1. ^ Paice 2007, p. 299.
  2. ^ Strachan 2004, p. 31.
  3. ^ Killingray 2012, p. 116.
  4. ^ Moberly 1931, p. 426.
  5. ^ Erlikman 2004.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference soldiersoftheirown was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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