'B' Company, West Africa Regiment, 1910

Photograph, West Africa, 1910.

The West African Regiment was raised in 1898 as a single-battalion regiment in Sierra Leone, for the defence of Freetown, a major British naval base. Recruited locally from various tribes, it also maintained internal security in the colony. The regiment was disbanded in 1929.

One of six photographs collected by Sergeant Major Lewis Canton, West African Regiment, Sierra Leone, 1909-1910.