1/4th Battalion, King's African Rifles

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1/4th Battalion, King's African Rifles
Years active:	–
Country:	Uganda
Service:	British Imperial Forces
Branch:	King's African Rifles (British Imperial Forces)
Type:	Infantry
Specific type:	Infantry battalion
Full size:	1000
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Name1:	4th (Uganda) Battalion King's African Rifles
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Reason for change:	split into multiple battalions
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Name2:	1st Battalion 4th Regiment King's African Rifles
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Alternate names:	1/4th KAR
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Command structure
Relationship type:	Administrative
Parent unit:	King's African Rifles
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Command structure
Relationship type:	Administrative
Parent unit:	4th Regiment King's African Rifles
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Theatre of war
Theatre name:	East and West Africa
Date entered:	01/08/1914
Date left:	30/09/1918
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Personal narratives

Harold S. Pinder

Bodleian Library, Oxford, MSS Afr. s. 1715 (215*) (Box 15) is a collection of photostats of letters sent home by Harold Pinder (later a brigadier) while serving in this battalion in 1913-1914. (The catalogue description says the original letters are held by the Imperial War Museum, but where are they in the IWM catalogue?)

Related media

• Imperial War Museum Q 67818: photo of men of this battalion with a wounded German askari soldier.
• Imperial War Museum Q 67820: photo of an officer of this battalion handing over medical stores to the Germans under a flag of truce.

Official sources

Unit war diaries

• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5333/1 (01/08/1914–31/12/1915)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5333/14 (01/11/1915–31/05/1916)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5333/2 (01/01/1916–31/07/1916)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5334/13 (01/11/1916–31/03/1917)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5331/17 (01/04/1917–31/08/1917)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5331/12 (01/09/1917–30/11/1917)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5331/13 (01/05/1918–31/12/1918)
• The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5328/14 (01/08/1918–30/09/1918)

References

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