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*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. (The Nyasaland regiment, 1KAR, was administered from Zomba, Nyasaland and British personnel attached to it do not appear on this list). TNA, but reference not stated.<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> Note however the source is later stated to be NAM ([[National Army Museum]])<ref>bushfighter. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/289910-w-h-coventry-in-the-2nd-kings-african-regiment/?do=findComment&comment=3009279 W H Coventry in the 2nd Kings African Regiment] ''Great War Forum'' 1 May 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021.</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] *There are some King's African Rifles records at the [[National Army Museum]], London including**Miscellaneous documents associated with the 2nd King's African Rifles in East Africa, 1916-1918; associated with World War One, East Africa (1914-1918). Archives NAM Accession Number 1965-06-16**Correspondence and documents relating to the history of the King's African Rifles collected by Lt Col H Moyse Bartlett, nd. Archives NAM Accession Number 1967-05-60
*Catalogue entry [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4635 CO 445 Colonial Office: Niger and West Africa Frontier Force and West Africa Frontier Force Original Correspondence] TNA This series contains original correspondence relating to the Niger and West Africa Frontier Force to 1899, the West Africa Frontier Force from 1900, and the Royal West Africa Frontier Force from 1918. It was raised locally in 1897 to protect the frontiers of the British protectorates in West Africa against the French. It was paid by the imperial government, and officered by the British Army. It took the title 'Royal' in April 1928, and was responsible for the defence of The Gambia, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.
*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,
