Togoland CampaignTogo / Ghana · 1914“Draw near — the atlas keeps this thread, and tonight the fire lends it a voice.”The first Allied shot of the Great War on land was fired not in Flanders but by a West African soldier of the Gold Coast Regiment, in August 1914, on the road into German Togoland. The prize was a tower: Kamina, the great wireless station linking Berlin to its ships across the south Atlantic.