1st Kenya Rifles Battalion
Encyclopedia
1st Kenya Rifles Battalion is the oldest unit of the Kenya Army. It is an offshoot of pre-independent Kenya British Army
outfit Kings African Rifles that was formed to counter the Mau Mau insurgency.
This unit is based in Nanyuki
Central Kenya
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British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
outfit Kings African Rifles that was formed to counter the Mau Mau insurgency.
This unit is based in Nanyuki
Nanyuki
Nanyuki is a market town in central-east Rift Valley region of Kenya lying northwest of Mount Kenya along the A2 road and at the terminus of the branch railway from Nairobi. It is situated just north of the Equator . It was founded in 1907 by British settlers, some of whose descendants still live...
Central Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
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