Kiwis capture Samoa during WW1

TODAY IN NZ HISTORY - WED, 29 AUG

1914 - New Zealand force captures German Samoa

Colonel Robert Logan led a 1400-strong expeditionary force to capture German Samoa in New Zealand’s first action of the First World War. This was the second German territory, after Togoland in East Africa, to fall to the Allies in the war. more...