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Die King’s African Rifles waren ein in Britisch-Ostafrika von der Kolonialmacht gebildetes Infanterieregiment der britischen Leichten Infanterie als Jägertruppe. Aufgestellt wurde es im Jahr 1902, um die bestehenden Kolonialtruppen zu zentralisieren und daraus Synergieeffekte in Bezug auf Versorgung und Ausbildung zu erzielen.
The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces regiment raised from Britain's East African colonies in 1902. It primarily carried out internal security duties within these colonies along with military service elsewhere during the world wars and other conflicts, such as the Malayan Emergency and the Mau Mau ...
The King’s African Rifles (KAR) were the British colonial military within East Africa before and during the First World War. While initially rarely involved in the British operations in East Africa, the continued resistance of the German Schutztruppe forced the rapid expansion of the KAR to over 30,000 officers and men.
Finally, on 1st January, 1902, all these various Battalions were amalgamated into a new regiment, to be known as: THE KING’S AFRICAN RIFLES. There were to be six Battalions: 1st and 2nd Nyasaland, 4th Uganda, 3rd and 5th Kenya, and 6th Somaliland.
I joined the King's African Rifles on 17 Dec 1940 and served with them until May 1945 first as a BNCO and then as a BWO in the 4/4th Bn.KAR until Dec 1942, then OCTU until the end of Apr...
The Band of the King's African Rifles was the primary British Army musical unit in the East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) until most of its constituent regions, such as the Kenya Colony, gained their independence from the United Kingdom in the 1960s.
16. Sept. 2023 · On 15 July 1961, Kenya took a significant step towards Africanisation as the first eight African officers were commissioned into the King’s African Rifles.1 The army had been formed in 1902, but th...
