The First World War that broke out in August 1914 produced categories of rippling effects in different war theatres around the globe, especially Cameroon which was a German strategic Protectorate. The extension of the war to Cameroon by the combined Anglo-French contingent in many respects besides its upsetting toll on lives and property engendered a scene of new social dynamics and invidious power relations. This phenomenon was particularly common in Ossidinge, a German administrative outpost which became a major war playhouse in the Cameroon phase of the war. It is in this matrix that the article examines the major social developments associated with mutations in the gender distribution of labour and the emergence of phony heroes which altered the pre-war society. From the basis of data gleaned and qualitatively interpreted from primary and secondary sources, the study establishes that the heavy involvement of men in the war had as opportunity cost the forestallment of economic activities notably, agriculture. Faced with this challenge, women stepped up to fill the vacuum and by extension became the new economic entrepreneurs with privilege access to wealth accumulation. In the same context, some of the men who fought in the war for the Germans or the British developed prey-tactics and took advantage of the war-scare to lord authority and exploit their own people