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Colonial Office: Military Original Correspondence

CO 820 | Colonial Office: Military Original Correspondence. | This series consists of files from the series produced by a unified system of military registration introduced in the Colonial Office in 1927 and which continued until 1951. 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, including local defence forces in East and West Africa, and the Northern Rhodesia Regiment (formed in 1933 and formerly the Northern…