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Regimental articles
*''The Rhodesian African Rifles'' by Christopher Owen 1970. Series: ''Famous regiments''. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002736055
====Regimental articles====
*[https://www.chakoten.dk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/The-Uniforms-of-the-East-African-Rifles-c.1900.pdf "The Uniforms of the East African Rifles, c.1900"] by Per Finsted. chakoten.dk
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/452201.html "Narunya 1917: 1st/2nd KAR (The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the King’s African Rifles) in the Narunyu Action. German East Africa, 18th September 1917"] by Harry Fecitt from Harry's Africa. kaiserscross.com
*[https://gweaa.com/th-battalion-of-th-regiment-uganda-of-kings-african-rifles-great-war/ "The 4th Battalion of the 4th Regiment (Uganda) of the Kings African Rifles in the Great War"] by Harry Fecitt March 21, 2011. gweaa.com. 4th Regiment, recruited from Uganda, started the Great War with only one battalion. By the end of the war the 4th Regiment had six battalions. 4/4 KAR was initially based at Mbagathi, outside Nairobi in British East Africa (now Kenya). This was a massive depot where recruit training was centralised for all the KAR regiments except the 1st. 1 KAR continued to use its bases in Nyasaland (now Malawi).
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25779137?seq=1 ""The Polish White Infusion": Polish Officers In Britain's Royal West African Frontier Force, 1941-1945"] by Michael S. Healy ''The Polish Review'' Vol. 44, No. 3 (1999), pp. 277-293 jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free, (limits apply) see [[Miscellaneous tips]].
 
==Records, other than military==
*The British Library holds the book ''The Swift Directory of British East Africa, Uganda, and Zanzibar ...'' [1915] published Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. UIN: BLL01000944752 . It is possible this title may be similar in format to ''Thacker's Indian Directory''. There is reference elsewhere also to a 1912 title ''Directory of British East Africa, Uganda, and Zanzibar'', possibly from a different publisher, although the BL does not appear to hold it. Also details, as catalogued, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Red_Book.html?id=oBAOAQAAMAAJ ''"The Red Book,": The Directory of East Africa, Uganda & Zanzibar''] possibly available to those in North America etc. Google Books. Actual title, from thumbnail of cover appears to be ''The Red Book 1922-23: Handbook and Directory for Kenya Colony and Protectorate, Uganda Protectorate, Tanganyika Territory, and Zanzibar Sultanate'', which is available at the Libraries of the University of Cambridge, which also holds a title ''The Red Book : the "Standard" British East Africa & Uganda handbook and directory'' compiled by the "East African Standard" c 1919-1920. There is a similar book for [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JBYOAQAAMAAJ 1909] Snippet Google Books, possibly available full view in USA etc. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008568583 HathiTrust Digital Library].
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