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  • South African Overseas Expeditionary Force
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  • The South African Overseas Expeditionary Force (SAOEF) was a volunteer military organisation in World War I.
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Branch
  • Army
Type
  • Infantry
Caption
  • Cap badge of the 1st SA Infantry Brigade
Dates
  • 1915
Unit Name
  • South African Overseas Expeditionary Force
notable commanders
  • Lt-Genl Jan Smuts
  • Lt-Genl Sir Jacob van Deventer
  • Maj-Genl Sir Henry Timson Lukin
Disbanded
  • 1919
Battles
  • Egypt Campaign
  • German East Africa Campaign
  • Palestine Campaign
  • Western Front Campaign
decorations
  • Captain William Anderson Bloomfield VC
  • L Cpl William Henry Hewitt VC
  • Pte William Frederick Faulds VC
battle honours
  • Belatedly awarded to the 1915 Cape Corps in 1973: ** Kilimanjaro ** Behobeho ** Nyangao ** East Africa 1916 – 1917 ** East Africa 1917–1918 ** Megiddo 1918 ** Nablus ** Palestine 1918
abstract
  • The South African Overseas Expeditionary Force (SAOEF) was a volunteer military organisation in World War I.
is commemorates of