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The regiment served throughout the First World War in the Cameroons (1914-1916), and in East African Campaign (1916-1918). In the Second World War, the regiment saw service in the East African Campaign where it carried out the fastest advance in military history against Italian forces and in Burma where it provided the bulk of the 81 and 82 West African divisions.
The West African Frontier Force first saw action during the occupation of the German Kamerun (now Cameroon and part of present-day Nigeria).The experience gained in this campaign during 1914–16, in difficult terrain against stubborn resistance, made the WAFF a valuable reinforcement to the British Empire forces operating against the German Schutztruppe (colonial troops) in East Africa led by ...
Smuts had a large army (for the area), some 13,000 South Africans including Boers, British, Rhodesians and 7,000 Indian and African troops, a ration strength of 73,300 men. [k] There was a Belgian force and a larger but ineffective group of Portuguese military units based in Mozambique.
Nigerian Civil War starts in 1967; 1975 Nigerian coup d'état (1975) Military government. Supreme Military Council (SMC) Armed Forces faction Supreme Military Council (SMC) Coup succeeds. Yakubu Gowon is ousted and replaced with Murtala Mohammed. 1976 Nigerian coup d'état attempt (1976) Military government. Supreme Military Council (SMC) Armed ...
Organic Units Commanding General 1st Infantry Brigade: 1st Division: May 24, 1917 16th Infantry Regiment 18th Infantry Regiment 2nd Machine Gun Battalion Brig. Gen. Omar Bundy Brig Gen. George B. Duncan Brig. Gen. John L. Hines Brig. Gen. Frank Parker Col. Hjalmar Erickson 2nd Infantry Brigade: 1st Division: May 24, 1917 26th Infantry Regiment
The Nigerian Army traces its history to Lieutenant John Hawley Glover's Constabulary Force, which was largely composed of freed Hausa slaves in 1863. [6] The Constabulary Force was established with the primary goal of protecting the Royal Niger Company and its assets from constant military incursions by the neighboring Ashanti Empire. [7]
Four Hausa Gun Carriers of the Southern Nigeria Regiment, photographed in London by John Benjamin Stone. The Southern Nigeria Regiment was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces regiment which operated in Nigeria in the early part of the 20th century. The Regiment was formed out of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force and part of the Royal Niger ...
On 13 November two days after the Armistice was signed in France, the German Army took Kasama unopposed. The next day at the Chambezi River, Lettow-Vorbeck was handed a telegram announcing the signing of the armistice and he agreed to a cease-fire. Lettow-Vorbeck marched his army to Abercorn and formally surrendered on 23 November 1918. [108] [l]