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 1943.

A former military officer is set to give a talk in Carlisle on the history of the King’s African Rifles On Tuesday, April 8, Colonel David Bates will deliver the presentation at Cumbria’s ...

Karumbo, who served in the King’s African Rifles, a British colonial regiment, is one of thousands of East African veterans who fought for Britain during the two world wars and in local conflicts.

In their maroon tarbooshes and crisp khakis, the King’s African Rifles stood tough and tall in the front rank of Britain’s far-flung battle line. Whether the enemy was a spear-swinging Somali ...

During World War II, pug-nosed, Australian-born Stanley (“Davo”) Davidson and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi served together in Ethiopia as members of the King’s African Rifles. When the war was ...

M. Ilmolelian. At the age of 28 years (in 1938), my grandfather, Mr Peter Frank, was enrolled in the King’s Rifle of Africa. He was taken to Nairobi (Kenya) but did not tell my mother where else ...

King's African Rifles Frank Stedman (aged 89) writes ... I served in the army from Nov 1939 to Jun 1946 initially in the South Wales Borderers at the ITC Brecon first as a recruit and later as an ...

Idi Amin Dada, one of Africa’s most notorious dictators, is in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, sources at the hospital said today. Idi Amin Dada, one of Africa’s most notorious dictators ...