Kamerun campaign
| Kamerun campaign | |||||||||
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| Part of the African theatre of World War I | |||||||||
British QF 12-pounder 8 cwt firing at Fort Dachang in 1915 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Charles Dobell Frederick Cunliffe Joseph Aymerich Félix Fuchs |
Karl Ebermaier Carl Zimmermann Ernst Raben | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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WAFF WIR Force Publique | Schutztruppe | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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September 1914: 2,695 soldiers 2,267 soldiers 4,563 carriers 16 guns January 1916: 6,400 soldiers 8,000 soldiers 500 soldiers 34 guns Total: 8,000 soldiers 10,000 soldiers 600 soldiers 40,000 carriers |
February 1916: 6,575 soldiers | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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1,590 316+ dead 587+ wounded 34+ missing 2,608 1,004 dead 1,567 wounded 37 missing Carriers: 102+ killed or wounded 472+ died of disease Total: 4,600 killed, wounded, and died of disease 10,035+ 'invalided' | 1,137 | ||||||||
| Hundreds to thousands of Duala civilians killed | |||||||||
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.