Starting my British Force for Burma: First Game 27Nov22

[Digits]

Except Cameroon was both French and British (British in the north next to Nigeria)...formally German during WW1.

If Wiki is to be believed, some 3,500 fought for Britain in WW2...admittedly not many.

[Plynkes]

Cameroon was on the other side in the Great War, by the time of the sequel there were three Cameroons (sort of). The victorious Brits and French divided German Kamerun between them. The Brits got two non-contiguous parts, Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons (Known collectively as British Cameroons) while the French got the bulk of the colony, it becoming the French mandate of Cameroun.

Interestingly, the Belgians, who also participated in yanking Kamerun from Germany's grasp, didn't get anything for their trouble.

Due to British Cameroons both having a border with Nigeria I suppose it is perfectly possible that Nigeria recruited from there. That is mere speculation, mind, I have no solid info on that.
 
When independence rolled around plebiscites were held, with Southern Cameroons opting to join the Republic of Cameroon, while the people of Northern Cameroons decided they  wanted to be Nigerians, which I think they still are.

[Plynkes]

Digits beat me to it!

[Digits]

Only just. 

I lived in Edea, about 2 hours from Douala (probably less now with good roads...back then,  not so good.) Firmly French speaking where I was.

[Jemima Fawr]

Cheers lads, I stand totally corrected (and educated)!

That notwithstanding, there wasn't a Cameroon Regiment.  However, on reading up, lots of Cameroon lads joined up with the Nigeria Regiment.   

[Plynkes]

I get the impression that both British Cameroons were administered by the Nigerian colonial government, pretty much as extensions of Nigeria. Colonies of a colony, as it were. So it makes sense they would join the Nigeria Regt.

[Digits]

Close enough for me.  Very interesting stuff. Cheers both.

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

That notwithstanding, there wasn't a Cameroon Regiment.  However, on reading up, lots of Cameroon lads joined up with the Nigeria Regiment.   

What about the Cameroon Highlanders?  Not to be confused with the Cameroonians (Rifles), of course. 

[joekano]

Back with new early war troops, though some are for Singapore rather than Burma



A few more pics and details are on the blog:
https://majorthomasfoolery.blogspot.com/2020/11/more-ww2-bolt-action-british-troops-for.html

Chris

[Jemima Fawr]

Fantastic! 

Don't forget that they're also perfect for Hong Kong (including the Lanchester)!

[joekano]

Thanks! Didn’t think about Hong Kong, but glad to know I have more uses for my Chinese terrain.

Chris

[joekano]

Next batch is off the table: Gurkhas and Sikhs


More pics can befound on the blog:
https://majorthomasfoolery.blogspot.com/2020/11/gurkhas-and-sikhs-for-burma.html

[Jemima Fawr]

Beautiful, once again! 

[joekano]

Ok, I didn't think is was worth starting a new topic for this, so I'll add it here.  As some of my Burma force can pull double duty in Africa games, I took a slight detour over the holidays and picked up some items specific to the Ethiopian/Abyssinian theater.


https://majorthomasfoolery.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-detour-through-ethiopia.html

Regularly scheduled Burma updates will begin again soon.

Thanks for looking!

Chris

[Warboss Nick]

Lovely project and painting! Great to see you are putting so much thought and work into this project.