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*Officers will generally be mentioned in the ''London Gazette'', and British ''Army List''s. It appears they are more likely to be mentioned in the official War Office publications ''Quarterly'' and ''Monthly Army List''s, or listed with more detail, compared with the commercial ''Army List''s. For more details of these publications, see [[British Army#Records|British Army - Records]]. As an (online) example: September 1919 ''Monthly List'', under "Special Lists", lists King's African Rifles officers in Staff, 1st-7th Regiments, Signal Company and Pay Department.<ref>[https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/123797119 September 1919 ''Monthly List''], page 2518 digital.nls.uk.</ref>
*A researcher found an officer of the Uganda Rifles 1901-2 mentioned in [[The National Archives]] record "Africa: Protectorate staff lists (East Africa, Uganda, Somali Coast, Central Africa, King's African Rifles), 1896-1905 FO 403/556"<ref>LeoHickman. [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=12425#p66474 2nd Lt John Simeon WARD - Uganda Rifles (1899-1903)] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 5 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018</ref>
*Catalogue entry [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4724 CO 534 Colonial Office: King's African Rifles Original Correspondence] TNA. This series contains original correspondence relating to the King's African Rifles 1905-1926,.
*Catalogue entry [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C77646 Subseries within WO 106 King's African Rifles, including Somaliland Camel Corps] TNA. 1895-1937.
*TNA reference not stated "Nominal Roll Of Warrant And Non Commissioned Officers Serving In The King's African Rifles. Quarter ending September 1918" for the Nairobi-based regiments.<ref>bushfighter [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/214022-kings-african-rifles/?do=findComment&comment=2117295 Kings African Rifles] ''Great War Forum'' 8 July 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2018.</ref>
*Search [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk TNA Discovery] for WW1 (East Africa, Cameroon and West Africa: WO 95/5289-5388) and WW2 War Diaries.
*[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html King's African Rifles Papers at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford]
*''The Story of the East African Mounted Rifles'' by C.J. Wilson 1938. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01009620624. Also available in a reprint edition.<ref>[https://www.leonaur.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=25 ''The Story of the East African Mounted Rifles''] by C.J. Wilson leonaur.com.</ref>
====Regimental articles====
*[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).
