A Warrant Officer, King’s African Rifles at a rest camp in Assam, 1944 (b/w photo)

A Warrant Officer of the King’s African Rifles at a rest camp in Assam, 1944. Photograph, World War Two, India, 1944. Thousands of African soldiers served in Burma during the war. It was the first campaign in which complete African divisions were formed and the first Britain’s African troops fought outside Africa. Compared with Europeans, the Africans were more resistant to tropical diseases and heat, and their sickness rates were among the lowest in Burma. They proved to be excellent jungle fighters. From an album of 608 photographs compiled by Colin Campbell of the King’s African Rifles.