General Slim presenting a gallantry award to an African soldier, 1945 (c)
Photograph, World War Two, Far East 1945 (c).
The awards ceremony took place during a parade of the 1st Northern Rhodesian Regiment and the 2nd (Nyasaland) Battalion, The King's African Rifles. Slim was commander of the Fourteenth Army in Burma.
From an album of 608 photographs compiled by Colin Campbell of the King's African Rifles.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1997-08-57-477
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1997-08-57-477
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