Add to ORKGWhen war broke out in August 1914, the Union of South Africa found itself unprepared for what lay ahead. When the Imperial garrison left the Union during September 1914, supplies, equipment and a working knowledge of British military procedures reduced considerably. South Africa was, in effect, left starting from scratch. Yet, within five months and despite having to quell a rebellion, the Union was able to field an expeditionary force to invade German South West Africa and within a year agree to send forces to Europe and East Africa. This article explores how the Union Defence Force came of age in 1914.Keywords: South Africa, mobilisation, rebellion, Union Defence Force, World War
This dissertation studies the First World War South African campaign in German South West Africa fro...
On 23 March 1939 Mr Oswald Pirow, Minister of Defence of the Union of South Africa, reported in Parl...
In 1940, Great Britain's wartime exploitation of the human and material resources of its colonial em...
The South African (SA) Army’s history can be traced back to 1912, when South Africa’s first defence ...
This article comprises a study of the devastating impact of the First World War upon colonial author...
CITATION: Van der Waag, I. 2015. South African defence in the age of total war, 1900–1940. Historia,...
Peer-reviewed journal article.Natal was a small British colony of settlement in southern Africa whic...
The first internal deployment of the Union Defence Force (UDF) since its inception in 1912 was to su...
The First World War marked a revolt against the traditional mode of official history as conceived an...
At the outbreak of war, the imperial powers in East Africa were unprepared for a major campaign. Alt...
The political, economic, social and military developments in the High Commissioned Territories (HCT)...
Between 1873 and 1900, Great Britain launched over eighty military expeditions to Africa and Asia to...
The Natal Afrikaner1 rebels hardly feature in the historiography of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902....
As World War I approached, the potential for conflict drove the principal future protagonists, Engla...
This thesis considers the relationship between Germany’s South-West African colony and its British S...
This dissertation studies the First World War South African campaign in German South West Africa fro...
On 23 March 1939 Mr Oswald Pirow, Minister of Defence of the Union of South Africa, reported in Parl...
In 1940, Great Britain's wartime exploitation of the human and material resources of its colonial em...
The South African (SA) Army’s history can be traced back to 1912, when South Africa’s first defence ...
This article comprises a study of the devastating impact of the First World War upon colonial author...
CITATION: Van der Waag, I. 2015. South African defence in the age of total war, 1900–1940. Historia,...
Peer-reviewed journal article.Natal was a small British colony of settlement in southern Africa whic...
The first internal deployment of the Union Defence Force (UDF) since its inception in 1912 was to su...
The First World War marked a revolt against the traditional mode of official history as conceived an...
At the outbreak of war, the imperial powers in East Africa were unprepared for a major campaign. Alt...
The political, economic, social and military developments in the High Commissioned Territories (HCT)...
Between 1873 and 1900, Great Britain launched over eighty military expeditions to Africa and Asia to...
The Natal Afrikaner1 rebels hardly feature in the historiography of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902....
As World War I approached, the potential for conflict drove the principal future protagonists, Engla...
This thesis considers the relationship between Germany’s South-West African colony and its British S...
This dissertation studies the First World War South African campaign in German South West Africa fro...
On 23 March 1939 Mr Oswald Pirow, Minister of Defence of the Union of South Africa, reported in Parl...
In 1940, Great Britain's wartime exploitation of the human and material resources of its colonial em...