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British African regiments such as the King's African Rifles
*Catalogue entry [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5009 CO 820 Colonial Office: Military Original Correspondence] TNA. From 1927 to 1938, the files relate principally to two colonial military forces: the King's African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Force. From 1939 there is also correspondence relating to other African colonial forces,
*Service records, should they still exist, would be found in African archives. Researchers have found emails to such archives have not been answered. For practical purposes, any potential service records appear unaccessable, unless perhaps you are personally able to visit the relevant African country. There is no information known about holdings, but any records which survive are likely to relate to later, rather than earlier periods.
===Regimental histories===
*''The King's African Rifles. A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1945'' by Lieut.-Colonel H Moyse-Bartlett 1956. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096707. Sample pages only, reprint edition [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q3C-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP2 Volume 1], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aHC-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP3 Volume 2] Google Books. Includes Contents.
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