page_title: South West Africa campaign
section_title: Combat between German and Portuguese forces
hierarchical_section_title: South West Africa campaign / Combat between German and Portuguese forces
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Deutsche Reiter in Südwest
context_page_description: The South West Africa Campaign was the conquest and occupation of German South West Africa by forces from the Union of South Africa acting on behalf of the British imperial government at the beginning of the First World War.
context_section_description: Before an official declaration of war between Germany and Portugal (March 1916), German and Portuguese troops clashed several times on the border between German South West Africa and Portuguese Angola. The Germans won most of these clashes and were able to occupy the Humbe region in southern Angola until Portuguese control was restored a few days before the successful South African campaign defeated the Germans.
caption: German mounted troops in South West Africa
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