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Searching for the missing dead of the First World War: Finding & digitising the ‘lost’ service records of the King’s African Rifles
Searching for the missing dead of the First World War: Finding & digitising the ‘lost’ service records of the King’s African Rifles
10 June 2025

Dr George Hay, Commonwealth War Graves Commission Official Historian, guides us through a vital digitisation project to preserve the records of the King’s African Rifles.

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