Battle of Bita Paka

GPTKB entity

Statements (21)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:battle
gptkbp:casualties 1 German killed
1 Australian officer died of wounds
30 Australians wounded
30 Melanesian police killed
6 Australians killed
gptkbp:combatant gptkb:Australian_Naval_and_Military_Expeditionary_Force
Imperial German forces
gptkbp:commander Colonel William Holmes
Hermann Detzner
gptkbp:date 11 September 1914
gptkbp:followedBy Siege of Toma
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Battle of Bita Paka
gptkbp:location Bita Paka, near Rabaul, New Pomerania, German New Guinea
gptkbp:objective capture of German wireless station
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:World_War_I
gptkbp:precededBy Australian landing at Kabakaul
gptkbp:result Australian victory
gptkbp:significance led to Australian occupation of German New Guinea
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Occupation_of_German_New_Guinea
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7