The East Africa Rifles, 1902 (c)

Chromolithograph by George Berridge and Co, Dean and Son and J J Keliher and Co after Richard Simkin, published 1902.

The East African Rifles were raised in 1895 at Mombasa, Kenya, from irregular troops of the British East Africa Company. On 1 January 1902 they were united with the Central Africa Regiment and Uganda Rifles to form The King's African Rifles. The East Africans were designated as the 3rd Battalion.