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Bodleian Library, Oxford [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715: King's African Rifles Papers] contains personal narratives from many officers of the regiment covering the 1910s to 1960s. Any narratives covering the First World War need matching to battalions.
 
  
 
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* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (197) (Boxes 12-14): papers of Lieutenant-Colonel H. Moyse-Bartlett, the official historian of the King's African Rifles.
  
 
=== Other official documents ===
 
=== Other official documents ===

Revision as of 11:39, 5 March 2016

King's African Rifles
Years active: 1902 –
Country:
Service: British colonial forces
Branch: unknown
Type: Infantry
Specific type: Infantry regiment (administrative)
Full size: none
Sources for overview:
Created: 1902. 
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For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.
Command structure
Relationship type: Administrative
Subordinate unit: 1st King's African Rifles
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Command structure
Relationship type: Administrative
Subordinate unit: 1/1st King's African Rifles
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Command structure
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Subordinate unit: 3/1st King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 1/2nd King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 2/2nd King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 3/2nd King's African Rifles
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Command structure
Relationship type: Administrative
Subordinate unit: 3rd King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 1/3rd King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 2/3rd King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 3/3rd King's African Rifles
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Command structure
Relationship type: Administrative
Subordinate unit: 4th King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 1/4th King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 2/4th King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 3/4th King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 4/4th King's African Rifles
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Relationship type: Administrative
Subordinate unit: 5/4th King's African Rifles
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Subordinate unit: 2/6th King's African Rifles
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Command structure
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Subordinate unit: 1/7th King's African Rifles
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Personal narratives

Related media

William James Clachan

Captain

Photograph Album of King's African Rifles, 1916-1917, photographed by Captain William James Clachan (Service Nos BR 37/1638, NZEF 10/316), Alexander Turnbull Library (PA1-O-097)

Photograph Album of King's African Rifles at Zomba, 1917-1918, photographed by Captain William James Clachan (Service Nos BR 37/1638, NZEF 10/316), Alexander Turnbull Library (PA1-o-098)

Official sources

Unit war diaries

Template:WarDiaryNoneAdmin

Unit histories

  • Bodleian Library, Oxford, MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (197) (Boxes 12-14): papers of Lieutenant-Colonel H. Moyse-Bartlett, the official historian of the King's African Rifles.

Other official documents

  • The National Archives of the UK (TNA): CO 623, register of Colonial Office correspondence about the King's African Rifles.
  • The National Archives of the UK (TNA): CO 624, Colonial Office register of out-letters about the King's African Rifles.

Medal rolls

Campaign medal rolls at the UK National Archives.


Medal Officers Other ranks
1914 Star
1914-15 Star WO 329/2956 WO 329/2938
British War and Victory medals WO 329/2305 WO 329/2341, WO 329/2342, WO 329/2360, WO 329/2363, WO 329/2364, WO 329/2365
Territorial Force War Medal

Other sources


References


This page contains data imported from the UK National Archives Discovery catalogue, licensed under Open Government Licence v2.0.
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