The African theatre of the First World War comprises campaigns in North Africa instigated by the German and Ottoman empires, local rebellions against European colonial rule and Allied campaigns agains
German trenches in Garoua, German Cameroon
Western Desert, 1914–1918
British artillery in Kamerun, 1915
Senegalese Tirailleurs in Kamerun, 1916
Kamerun campaign
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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
African theatre of World War I
…and 2,000 followers had left before their arrival and as they moved south, were bombed from the air. French troops in Chad who had returned from the Kamerun campaign prevented a Darfurian withdrawal westwards. Dinar withdrew into the Marra Mountains 50 mi (80 km) south of El Fasher and sent envoys to discuss terms…
Kamerun, 1914
A German machine-gun emplacement in Doume, July 1915