Postcard of a German soldier guarding French POWs, most of them colonial troops, the colorful uniforms of a Zouave, Spahi, Senegalese, and metropolitan French soldier contrasting with the field gray German uniform. A 1915 postcard by Emil Huber.
Emil Huber 1915Reverse:Unsere FeldgrauenSerie II? preussischer Infanterie-SoldatPrussian Infantry SoldierLogo: K.E.B.
"The rounding up of the straggling bands of Germans throughout the colony occupied the Union forces during the next two months. Finally, on July 9th [1915], at a place called Kilometre 500, the Germans surrendered German Southwest Africa, with 5,000 prisoners of war, to the British. The conquest of this empire cost the Allies 1612 men in killed and wounded, while the Germans and rebel Boers lost 800."
The 'Union forces' were those of the Union of South Africa under the command of Prime Minister Louis Botha. Despite the opposition of many Boers who supported Germany in the World War, and subsequently fought for it, Botha supported Great Britain, and acted on its request to seize Germany's colony of Southwest Africa. The Germans surrendered Windhoek, the colony's capital, on May 12, but continued to fight for the following two months.
King's Complete History of the World War by W.C. King, page 167, copyright © 1922, by W.C. King, publisher: The History Associates, publication date: 1922
1915-07-09, 1915, July, German Southwest Africa, German soldier, German soldiers
