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| + | * [[4th Regiment King's African Rifles]] |
| − | | country = Uganda
| + | * [[1/4th Battalion King's African Rifles]] |
| − | | service = British colonial forces
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| − | | type = Infantry
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| − | | specific_type = Infantry battalion
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| − | | size_at_full_strength = 1,000
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| − | | start_date = 1902
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| − | | alternate_unit_names = 4th KAR, Uganda battalion
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| − | | command_start_date = 1902
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| − | | parent = King's African Rifles
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| − | == Personal narratives ==
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| − | === Arthur John Moore Burrowes ===
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| − | === Harold S. Pinder ===
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| − | Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html 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?)
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| − | == Related media ==
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| − | * Imperial War Museum [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205085883 Q 67818]: photo of men of this battalion with a wounded German askari soldier. | |
| − | * Imperial War Museum [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205315020 Q 67820]: photo of an officer of this battalion handing over medical stores to the Germans under a flag of truce.
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| − | == Official Sources ==
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| − | {{War diary none}}
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| − | == Other sources ==
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| − | {{DEFAULTSORT:King's African Rifles 004}}
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| − | [[Category:Units with personal narratives]]
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| − | [[Category:British colonial infantry battalions]]
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| − | [[Category:Uganda]]
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| − | == References ==
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