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1916, BRITISH OCCUPATION OF GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA 1915, TRANSVAAL 1d red postal stationery card, mailed NEUHEUSIS 8 April 1915 to KARIBIB, superb strike of the German imperial single‑circle NEUHEUSIS datestamp with crown and colony legend excised by the occupying postal authority, indicium tied, violet manuscript T applied then annulled when the Union clerk confirmed continued validity of Transvaal cards for the internal 1d postcard rate, reverse with crisp KARIBIB 10 April 1915 arrival, carriage over the Swakopmund–Windhoek military railway then secured by Lieutenant‑General H T Lukin’s Central Force during the South‑West Africa campaign, postal use falls squarely within the World War I operations led by Prime Minister General LOUIS BOTHA and Major‑General JAN SMUTS which compelled Governor Dr THEODOR SEITZ to surrender on 9 July 1915, the first complete Allied conquest of a German colony World War 1, NEUHEUSIS began as a Rhenish mission farm and the site of Captain CURT VON FRANÇOIS’ 1890 frontier fort that formed the nucleus of modern Windhoek, KARIBIB established by industrialist GOTTLOB ZERREN­NER served as the pivotal rail junction feeding the Otavi copper fields, provenance EX KUGEL, XF, exhibition‑worthy and scarce combination of German colonial cancelling device with Union stationery, ex Kugel, XF! Estimate 900€.