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Combatant States - Central powers | Austro - Hungary | Germany | Turkey (Ottoman Empire) | Bulgaria
Combatant States - Allies | Serbia | Russia | France | Belgium | United Kingdom | Australia | Canada | India | New Zealand | Rhodesia | Union of South Africa | United States of America| Italy | Romania | Greece | Montenegro | Portugal | Japan
Entered War : 4 August 1914 (in support of Britain)
Political system : Colony within the British empire. Rhodesia consisted of two administrations (North and South), which corresponded with present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively
Leader : Ultimate authority rested with George V and the imperial government in London
Population : 100,00-200,000 indigenous people, plus 35,000 settlers of mainly British origin (1914)
Army : 2,700 men in the Northern Rhodesia Rifles and 1,800 in the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers (1914). 6,831 Rhodesians saw service in the First World War, both in Europe and on the border with German East Africa
Casualties by 1918 : 732 dead