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English: On August 29n 1914 NZ forces captured German Samoa after being asked to do so by Great Britain. When war broke out in Europe in August 1914, Britain asked New Zealand to seize German Samoa as a ‘great and urgent Imperial service’. New Zealand’s response was swift. Led by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Logan, the 1385-strong Samoa Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force landed at Apia on 29 August. There was no resistance from German officials or Samoa’s general population.

The German flag was lowered and all buildings and properties belonging to the previous administration were seized. In the presence of officers, troops and ‘leading Native chiefs’, the British flag was raised outside the government building in Apia. The document pictured is the orders Logan received from Colonel Braithwaite to seize German Samoa. Braithwaite was a British Army Officer who had been seconded to the New Zealand Military Forces from 1911 to 1917. Archives New Zealand holds the military personnel files for Colonel Robert Logan and Colonel William Braithwaite. These files are digitised and can be accessed from the following links:

Robert Logan - archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=10920310 William Garnett Braithwaite - archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21005433

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