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South West Africa campaign
Part of African theatre of World War I

The South West Africa campaign in 1915
Date15 September 1914 – 9 July 1915
(9 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Location
South Africa, Namibia
Result Allied victory
Territorial
changes
South West Africa annexed to
the Union of South Africa
Belligerents

South West Africa campaign United Kingdom

  • South West Africa campaign South Africa

South West Africa campaign Portugal

  • South West Africa campaign Portuguese Angola

South West Africa campaign Germany

  • South West Africa campaign South West Africa

  • South West Africa campaign South African Republic
  • South West Africa campaign Ovambo
Commanders and leaders
  • Union of South Africa Jan Smuts
  • Union of South Africa Louis Botha
  • First Portuguese Republic Alves Roçadas
  • First Portuguese Republic Pereira d'Eça
  • German South West Africa Theodor Seitz
  • German South West Africa Victor Franke
  • German South West Africa Joachim von Heydebreck 

  • South African Republic Manie Maritz
  • South African Republic Jan Kemp
  • South West Africa campaign Mandume ya Ndemufayo 
Strength
67,000 South Africans
12,000 Portuguese
3,000 Schutztruppe
7,000 German militia & settlers
500-600 Boer commandos
50,000 – 150,000
(<20,000 fully armed)[1]
Casualties and losses

Union of South Africa:

  • 246 killed
  • 560 wounded
  • 782 captured
  • 181 died of disease[2]

Portuguese Angola:

  • 810 killed
  • 683 wounded
  • 268 missing or captured[3]

German South West Africa:

  • 103 killed
  • 890 captured
  • 37 field guns lost
  • 22 machine-guns lost

South African Republic:

  • 124 killed
  • 229 wounded[4]

Ovambo

  • 25 killed
  • 100 wounded

The South West Africa campaign was the conquest and occupation of German South West Africa by forces from the Union of South Africa acting on behalf of the British imperial government at the beginning of the First World War.

  1. ^ Zollmann 2016a, p. 212–213.
  2. ^ Mitchell & Smith 1931, pp. 263–264.
  3. ^ Fraga 2010.
  4. ^ Strachan, Hew (6 February 2003). The First World War: Volume I: To Arms – Hew Strachan – Google Books. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780191608346. Retrieved 23 April 2016.

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