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 uprising .

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.

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.

King’s African Rifles were deployed primarily to defend the vital Uganda Railway. In early 1915, given the inability to raise significant reinforcements from the British or Indian Armies, the military leadership in East Africa raised the possibility of expanding the King’s African

Our roots lie in the regiments formed in the 1890s by the Imperial British East Africa Company and led by their agents: the Uganda Rifles, the Central African Regiment and the East African Rifles.

In the late 1880s, Sudanese soldiers were incorporated into the British East Africa Company armed forces, eventually serving in the King's African Rifles in WWI & WWII. They played a vital role in the defense and development of Kenya and East Africa.

The King's African Rifles comprises six battalions maintained by the East African territories of Tanganyika, Nyasaland, Kenya and Uganda, in addition to the Somaliland Camel Corps stationed in Somaliland.

2022年4月25日 · This article describes the First World War diaries of the King's African Rifles, one of the British African colonial regiments. The documents are held, together with other related material, at The National Archives, Kew, London.

2021年5月20日 · This chapter examines Idi Amin's career in the British colonial army regiment called the King's African Rifles (KAR). It could be said, with only a small exaggeration, that the KAR made him the man he became.

2021年11月7日 · From 1902 through the 1960s, the King’s African Rifles (KAR) was a multi-unit colonial regiment of the British established from Britain’s different East African colonies. Within the colonies, it played both internal security and military roles, as well as serving beyond these areas during World Wars I and II.