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acclimatisation
Active Citizen Force
Adler, Lieutenant
aerial photographs
aeroplanes see aircraft
‘A Force’
African National Congress (ANC)
Afrikaans-speaking vs English-speaking whites
aircraft
Alberts, Brigadier General J.J.
America see United States of America
ANC (African National Congress)
Anglo-African Who’s Who and Biographical Sketchbook, The
Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902
Anglo-Zulu War
Angola (was Portuguese West Africa)
Angolan Bush War
anti-aircraft guns
anti-British sentiment see Afrikaans-speaking vs English-speaking whites
apartheid
armoured cars see motor cars
Armstrong breech-loading cannon, 15-pounder
artillery see weapons and artillery
askaris
Aus
Aviatik
Badenhorst, Colonel Commandant
Bambatha Rebellion of 1906
Basters
Belgium
Berrangé, Colonel Christian Anthony Lawson
Beves, Brigadier General Percival Scott
Beyers, Commandant General Christiaan Frederick
Bezuidenhout, Commandant
‘B Force’
biltong
Bismarck (horse)
bittereinders (bitter-enders)
black people see people of colour
black rhinos
bodyguards of Louis Botha
Boer commando system
Boer insurrection of 1914
Boer War see Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902
Bondelswarts tribe
Botha, Annie
Botha, Hermanus ‘Manie’
Botha, Louis
Britain declares war
Britain’s request
anti-German sentiment
Churchill and
black people
anti-British sentiment
aim of campaign
launch of campaign
Rebellion of 1914
bodyguards of
advance on Windhoek
cost of campaign
Cullinan diamond
aircraft
north of Windhoek
peace negotiations
Pom-Pom guns
impact of campaign
death of
statues of
legacy
Botha, Piet
Botha, P.W.
Bouwer, Colonel
Britain see Afrikaans-speaking vs English-speaking whites
Brits, Brigadier General Coen
background of
East African Campaign
Rebellion of 1914
South-West Africa campaign
Burenvreikorps (German reservist troops)
Buxton, Sydney Charles
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
Cape Mounted Rifles
Caprivi, Count Leo von
Caprivi Strip
Castro, Fidel
Central Force (was ‘C Force’)
‘C Force’ (later Central Force)
Churchill, Winston
cichlid
civilian population, German
Cold War
Collins, Colonel Commandant
Collyer, Brigadier General J.J.
on Brigadier General Myburgh
as chief of staff
on Colonel Skinner
on commando system
East African Campaign
on information about SWA
on Lieutenant Colonel Collins
on peace negotiations
on strategy
colonies of Germany
commandos see Boer commando system
Committee of Imperial Defence
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
communication lines
see also wireless stations
Company’s Gardens, Cape Town
concentration camps
see also Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902
conscription, South African Defence Force
control of territory, maps
copper mines
cost of campaign for Union of South Africa
Cuba
Cullinan, Sir Thomas
Cullinan diamond
Dawson, Colonel
Defence Act of 1912
De la Rey, General Koos
De Villiers-Graaff, Sir David
De Wet, General Christiaan
diamonds
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo
documents, official German
East African Campaign
Eastern Force
Egypt
English-speaking vs Afrikaans-speaking whites
Enselin, Captain
Etosha National Park
Farman aircraft
Fiedler, Lieutenant Paul
‘firsts’ associated with South-West Africa campaign
Fischer, Sergeant
food see supply lines
Fort Mucasso
Fort Namutoni
Fourie, Major Jopie
France
Franke, Major Erich Viktor Carl August
background
Botha’s feint
Franke Tower
guerrilla warfare
at Karibib
at Otavi
peace negotiations
Portuguese forces
at Swakop River
‘This is a hippodrome!’
at Trekkoppies
Frankenberg, Lieutenant Victor von
Franke Tower
Free State see Orange Free State
Gaertringen, Captain von
Gandhi, Mohandas
Garub
George V, King of England
German civilian population
German reservist troops (Burenvreikorps)
German Schütztruppe
Germany expected to win war
Ghana see Togoland
Gibeon
Goanikontes oasis
Gransden, Captain C.L.
Grant, Lieutenant Colonel R.C.
graves
Great Contemporaries
Greater Namaqualand
Grootfontein
guerrilla warfare
Gunners’ Memorial, Potchefstroom
Hadeln, First Lieutenant Friedrich von
Hansa Hotel
Hartigan, Major M.M.
Hartigan’s Horse
Henri Farman HF-27s
Herero people
Heroes’ Acre, Pretoria
Hertzog, General James Barry Munnik
Heydebreck, Lieutenant Colonel Joachim von
Caprivi Strip
death of
Portuguese forces
Rebellion of 1914
South-West Africa campaign
Himba people
horses
hospital trains
Houm’s Drift
Hunoldt, Lieutenant
impact of South-West Africa campaign
Imperial Light Horse
Imperial War Graves Commission
insurrection of 1914
‘invasion’ of Union of South Africa
Irish regiment
Jaafar Pasha
Jackson, Captain F.E.
Jakkalswater
Jameson, Dr Leander Starr
Jordaan, Lieutenant Colonel
Judd, Colonel B.C.
Kabus training camp
Kakamas
Kalahari Desert
Kalkfeld
Kaltenhausen
Karibib
kaross
Keetmanshoop
Kemp, Major Jan
Khorab Memorial
Khorab Station
Kilo 500
Kimberley
Kiries West
Kitchener, Lord
Kleist, Major von
Kleist, Ewald von
Kleist, Paul von
Labour Party
Lake Guinas
Lake Otjikoto
landmines
Lawrence, T.E.
League of Nations
Leliefontein mission station
Lemmer, Colonel
Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul Emil von
LFG Roland biplane
lorries
see also mechanised vehicles
Lüderitz
Luhonono see Schuckmannsburg
Lukin, Brigadier General Henry Timson
Lusitania
Madagascar
Maharero, Samuel
Malan, D.F.
maps
control of territory
dearth of
movement of soldiers
Southern Africa in 1914
Maritz, Lieutenant Colonel Salomon Gerhardus ‘Manie’
background
Rebellion of 1914
South-West Africa campaign
McKenzie, Brigadier General Sir Duncan ‘Dunc’
mechanised vehicles
Meintjes, Johannes
Mentz, Colonel
mines see landmines
Moçâmedes (now Namibe)
Modderfontein
Moore-Ritchie, Lieutenant Eric
motor cars
motorcycles
Mucasso (fort)
mules
Mushroom Valley
Myburgh, Brigadier General M.W.
Nama people
Namib Desert
Namibe see Moçâmedes
Namibia
independence of
landscape of
Namib-Naukluft National Park
NamibRand exclusion zone
Namutoni (fort)
Natal Carbineers
National Party
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)
Natives Land Act of 1913
Nonidas observation post
Northern Force
Northway, Lieutenant
OB see Ossewa Brandwag
Okaukuejo
Okiep Country Hotel
see also O’okiep
Omaruru
O’okiep (now Okiep)
Orange Free State
Orange River
Ossewa Brandwag (Oxwagon Sentinel)
Ostermann, Sergeant Oswald
Otavi
Otjikoto tilapia (Tilapia guinasana)
Otjimbingwe
Otjiwarongo
Ovambo people
peace negotiations
people of colour
Permanent Force
Pforteberg
poachers
poisoned waterholes
political impact of South-West Africa campaign
Pom-Pom gun
Poole, Captain
Port Nolloth
Portugal
Portuguese West Africa see Angola
prisoners of war
Purified National Party
racism see apartheid
radio communication see communication lines; wireless stations
railway lines
Raman’s Drift
Rand Rebellion
Rappard, Major Emil von
Rebellion of 1914
Rehoboth
Reid, Signaller
Reitz, Deneys
Reitz, Francis William
Reitz, Joubert
Republic of South Africa
Republic of Vryheid
reservist troops (Burenvreikorps)
rhinoceros
Rhodes, Cecil John
Rhodesian regiment
Riet Farm
Rietfontein
Ritter, Major Hermann
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts
Rössing Station
Royston, Lieutenant Colonel
rusks
SAAC (South African Aviation Corps)
SAAF (South African Air Force)
sabre-rattling
safe of gold
Salem
Salisbury, Lord
Sandfontein, Battle of
Sandfontein Nature Reserve
San people
Scheele, Lieutenant Alexander von
Schuckmannsburg (now Luhonono)
scorched-earth policy
see also Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902
Scottish regiments
scouts
Seitz, Governor Theodor
Senussi uprising
Skinner, Major General Percy Cyriac Brunnel
‘Skinny Liz’
Smuts, General Jan
Bondelswarts tribe
death of
Deneys Reitz and
East African Campaign
Kalahari Desert crossing
Manie Maritz and
as political leader
Rand Rebellion
Rebellion of 1914
South African Aviation Corps
South-West Africa campaign
Union Defence Force
Somme, Battle of the
South African Air Force (SAAF)
South African Aviation Corps (SAAC)
South African Border War
South African Mounted Rifles
South African Native National Congress
South African Party
Southern Army
Southern Force
South West Africa see Namibia
South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
Soviet Union
Spanish flu
Sperrgebiet exclusion zone
Spioenkop, Battle of
steam engines
Steinkopf
Strachan, Hew
striking miners
supply lines
surrender see peace negotiations
Swakopmund
Swakop River
SWAPO (South West Africa People’s Organisation)
Swart’s Scouts
Togoland
Transvaal
Transvaal Horse Artillery
Treaty of Khorab
see also Kilo 500
Treaty of Vereeniging
Treaty of Versailles
Trekkoppies
Trew, Major H.F.
Trück, Willy
trucks see lorries
Tsaukaib
Tsetse flies
Tsumeb
Tsumeb Corporation Limited
Tsumeb Museum
Tulio (scuba diver)
Ulundi, Battle of
UN see United Nations
Union Defence Force
Unionist Party
Union of South Africa
UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola)
United Nations
United Party
United States of America
Upington
Van der Spuy, Lieutenant Kenneth
Van Deventer, Dirk
Van Deventer, Brigadier General Jacob Louis ‘Jaap’
Van Rensburg, Niklaas
Van Vuuren, Captain
Van Wyk, Captain Cornelius
Verwoerd, Hendrik
Vryheid Republic
Walvis Bay
water see poisoned waterholes; supply lines
Waterberg Mountains
weapons and artillery
aerial bombing
anti-aircraft guns
German Schütztruppe
Lake Otjikoto
landmines
‘Skinny Liz’
Union Defence Force
Welby, Captain E.F.
wells, poisoned
Whittall, Lieutenant Commander W.
Wilhelmstal
Winburg
Windhoek
landscape of
surrender of
wireless stations
see also communication lines
Wylie, Colonel
Zulu people