A mounted patrol of the 4th (Uganda) Battalion, The King's African Rifles, in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), 1941

Photograph, World War Two, Abyssinia, 1941.

In January 1941 the British invaded Italian occupied Ethiopia. The black troops from British east, west and central Africa provided the bulk of the fighting forces. By May 1941 the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, had been retaken from the Italians.

From an album of 608 photographs compiled by Colin Campbell of the King's African Rifles.