4th King's African Rifles
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| 4th King's African Rifles | |
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| Years active: | 1902 – |
| Country: | Uganda |
| Service: | British colonial forces |
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| Type: | Infantry |
| Specific type: | Infantry battalion |
| Full size: | 1,000 |
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| Created: | 1902. |
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| Alternate names: | 4th KAR, Uganda battalion |
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| Disbanded: | |
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| For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war. | |
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| Relationship type: | Administrative |
| Parent unit: | King's African Rifles |
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| Start date: | 1902 |
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Contents
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
No war diaries exist for this unit. This could be because:
- units and formations were only required to keep official war diaries when operating in a theatre of war.
- war diaries were created but no longer survive.
- some unit pages on this site that represent groups of formation troops don't correspond to a unit or staff department that kept war diaries.
