The Nigerian Regiment Artillery under Lieutenant O T Frith with a field gun, 1914 (c)

Photograph, World War One, West Africa, 1914 (c).

The five battalion strong Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, was formed by the amalgamation of the Northern Nigeria Regiment and the Southern Nigeria Regiment in January 1914. The regiment served throughout World War One in West Africa, assisting in the capture of the German colonies of Togoland and Kamerun (now Cameroon).

Collected by Lieutenant Mark Culling Carr Gomm.