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*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.
*For missing or POW soldiers, see the relevant section on the page [[British Army]], including [[British Army#WW1 British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry Lists For Wounded And Missing|WW1 British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry Lists For Wounded And Missing]]*For soldiers who died during WW1 (possibly also those who became disabled) see [[British Army#WFA WW1 pension record cards|British Army - WFA WW1 pension record cards]] as a possible source of records.*See [[Cemeteries]] for Commonwealth War Graves Commission records.
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