Driver-mechanic Lance-Corporal Kisele Kilonzo, East African Reconnaissance Regiment, working on a tank, Burma, 1945

Photograph, World War Two, Far East, 1945.

Kisele Kilonzo was a Mkamba tribesman from Kenya. His tribal markings are visible on his arm as he repairs the tracks of an M3 tank. The East African Reconnaissance Regiment, part of 11th East African Division, was equipped with armoured cars and light tanks.

From an album of 147 photographs associated with Brigadier M W Briggs, 11th East African Division and the King's African Rifles.