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1st Kings African Rifles cap badge, brass casting with the number 1 removed, became Malawi Rifles after independence
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15 - 20 $
The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from Britain's various possessions in British East Africa in the present-day African Great Lakes region from 1902 until independence in the 1960s. It performed both military and internal security functions within the colonial territory, and later served outside these territories during the World Wars.
Six battalions were formed in 1902 by the amalgamation of the Central Africa Regiment, East Africa Rifles and Uganda Rifles, with one or two battalions located in each of Nyasaland, Kenya, Uganda and British Somaliland:
1st and 2bd battalions were located in Nyasaland.
- Category Nyasaland
- Wearing cap badge
- ribbon, number, crown, trumpet/horn Picture components
- Caption King's African Rifles
- Shape irregular
- Material brass
- Size 43×85 mm
- Maker
- Period 1902 - 1963