Second Battle of Garua

Second Battle of Garua
Part of the Kamerun Campaign in World War I
German trenches at Garua during the Kamerun Campaign
Date 31 May - 10 June 1915 Location Garua, Kamerun Coordinates: 09°18′N 13°24′E / 9.300°N 13.400°E / 9.300; 13.400 Result Allied victory
Belligerents
British Empire British Nigeria France French Equatorial Africa	German Empire German Kamerun
Commanders and leaders
Brigadier General Frederick Hugh Cunliffe	Captain von Crailsheim
Units involved
West African Frontier Force
Strength
	~500
Casualties and losses
None	249 captured others killed or deserted

British Empire

France

German Empire

The Second Battle of Garua took place from 31 May to 10 June 1915 during the Kamerun campaign of the First World War in Garua, German Kamerun. The battle was between a combined French and British force and defending German garrison and resulted in an Allied victory.

Since the British failure at the First Battle of Garua in August 1914, the German force at Garua, under Captain von Crailsheim, had been afforded considerable freedom of movement. This was demonstrated by a series of incursions into British Nigeria which culminated in the Battle of Gurin in April 1915. This was one of the largest German raids into Nigeria, and shocked the recently appointed Allied commander in the region, Colonel Cunliffe. The foray prompted a renewed British and French attempt to take the German forts at Garua. A British force under the command of Cunliffe arrived in Gurin the day after the battle, later joined by a French force. A 12-pounder gun was borrowed from the British cruiser HMS Challenger and a 95 mm naval gun from the French before the force moved out toward Garua in late April.

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