Southern Rhodesia. Army. Rhodesian African Rifles
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found: Owen, C.Rhodesian African Rifles, 1970.
found: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian Army, 2023:CIP galley (the Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR), an infantry regiment formed in 1940 in which black troops were commanded by white officers (a small number of black officers were commissioned after 1977); The RAR, disbanded in 1981; the RAR was a famous, prestigious infantry unit with an enviable reputation earned during service overseas in Burma during WWII and, later, the Malayan Emergency; Its soldiers were the last askaris)
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Change Notes
1980-11-20: new
2023-05-16: revised
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