1/4th Battalion, King's African Rifles
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1/4th Battalion, King's African Rifles | |
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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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Relationship type: | Administrative |
Parent unit: | King's African Rifles |
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Command structure | |
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Relationship type: | Administrative |
Parent unit: | 4th Regiment King's African Rifles |
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Theatre of war | |
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Theatre name: | East and West Africa |
Date entered: | 01/08/1914 |
Date left: | 30/09/1918 |
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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
- 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)
Unit histories
Other official documents
Other sources
References