A traditional dance by members of the 4th (Uganda) Battalion, King’s African Rifles, 1945 (b/w...

A traditional dance by members of the 4th (Uganda) Battalion, King’s African Rifles, 1945. Photograph, World War Two, 1945. The various battalions of the King’s African Rifles recruited from a wide range of ethnic and religious communities in British-ruled Africa. The recruits retained many of their ceremonial and social traditions and gatherings such as that depicted here, held to celebrate the end of the Second World War and the award of four days of leave, were a feature of life in the regiment. From an album of 608 photographs compiled by Colin Campbell of the King’s African Rifles.