Photograph of General Slim presenting a gallantry award to an African soldier during an awards parade of the 1st Northern Rhodesian Regiment and the 2nd (Nyasaland) Battalion, King’s African Rifles, 1944-1945 (c).
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1997-08-57-477
Description
Photograph of General Slim presenting a gallantry award to an African soldier during an awards parade of the 1st Northern Rhodesian Regiment and the 2nd (Nyasaland) Battalion, King’s African Rifles, 1944-1945 (c). Slim commanded both the North Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) troops and the Nyasaland (Malawi) soldiers of the King’s African Rifles as commander of the Fourteenth Army in Burma. One of 29 of 608 photographs from a photograph album, 1939-1945, compiled by Colin Campbell of the King’s African Rifles. Associated with World War Two, Far East (1941-1945).
Campaigns
World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)
Associated collection
