The Great War in West Africa [1930]

The Great War in West Africa [1930]

Author: Brigadier General E Howard Gorges (Edmund Howard)

Year: 1930

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Virginia https://books.google.com/books?id=AXc-AAAAYAAJ Date of publication 1930 taken from the Google Books book page. The author was Commandant West African Regiment 1914-1916. The Preface advises "Herein will be found a short narrative of the naval and military operations in Togoland and the Cameroons 1914-16. The Togoland adventure was skilfully and speedily accomplished, whilst the campaign in the Cameroons was a toilsome business. of nineteen months' duration, resulting in the occupation by the Allies in the spring of 1916 of a vast and interesting block of Tropical Africa…. My chief aim and object in attempting to write up some of the happenings “coastwise" during the great upheaval and I trust it is not now too late in the day—is to record the deeds of arms of our West African soldiers from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Gold Coast, and Gambia, who, drawn into a contest of which their understanding was imperfect, yet kept the flag flying and game to the last, followed their officers through swamps, primeval forests, vast tracts of bush and elephant grass, over great mountain ranges and fighting, fell, believing in t