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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, flag / banner / standard, empire / commonwealth, military personnel, military vehicles, weapons, military training, uniform, medals / orders / decorations Description: whole: the two main images occupy the majority, with a smaller image placed in the lower left, held within a blue circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower fifth, in black. All set against a white background and held within a yellow border. image: the left image is a depiction of three soldiers from the Royal West African Frontier Force, driving in a jeep. The right image is a full-length depiction of several African infantrymen, holding rifles, jumping over a wall during a training exercise. The smaller image is a Union Flag. text: Men of the R.W.A.F.F. in a jeep. It was through difficult country like this that they advanced along the Kaladan valley in Burma. This is the sort of training which African soldiers went through when they were preparing for the campaign in Burma. BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH WARRIORS IN THE FAR EAST MEN FROM EAST AND WEST AFRICA Amongst the finest Colonial troops in the world are the men from East and West Africa who fought the Japanese in Burma. From the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Gambia come men of the Royal West African Frontier Force, a regiment of which served with the famous Chindits in North Burma. In the Eleventh East African Division are Askaris of the King's African Rifles from Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland, Zanzibar and Somaliland, and men of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment, who are serving with the Fourteenth Army under the command of General Slim. Many of these African soldiers wear the ribbon of the Africa Star, earned during the East African Campaigns of 1940 and 1941. In company with some of the most famous British and Indian regiments, they have already won a high place for themselves among the Empire's warriors. FOR FREEDOM O.P.D. 365/13/34 Object: jeep, rifle, bayonet, flag | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Associated Person: Slim, William J (Field Marshal) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5172... | Go to resource |
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