Battle of Gurin

Battle of Gurin
Part of the Kamerun Campaign in World War I
Date 29 April 1915 Location Gurin, Nigeria Coordinates: 9°6′53.6″N 12°52′38.2″E / 9.114889°N 12.877278°E / 9.114889; 12.877278 Result British victory
Belligerents
British Empire British Nigeria	German Empire German Kamerun
Commanders and leaders
Captain Derek Pawle  † Lieutenant Joseph F. J. Fitzpatrick	Captain von Crailsheim Captain Schipper
Strength
42	350–400
Casualties and losses
13	45

British Empire

German Empire

The Battle of Gurin took place on 29 April 1915 during the Kamerun Campaign of World War I in Gurin, British Nigeria near the border with German Kamerun. The battle was one of the largest of the German forays into the British colony. It ended in a successful British repulsion of the German force.

By April 1915, British forces were concentrated mainly in southern and central Kamerun, leaving much of the Nigerian border with the German colony relatively undefended. Following the failed siege of the main German outpost in northwestern Kamerun at the First Battle of Garua in August 1914, German forces in the area had substantial freedom of movement. This allowed Captain von Crailsheim, the German commander at Garua, to conduct a number of raids into British Nigeria. In late April, a force commanded by von Crailsheim joined with a smaller one commanded by Captain Schipper to attack the village of Gurin, just inside the Nigerian border.

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