RWAFF

Acronym	Definition
RWAFF	Royal West African Frontier Force

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The new nation's armed forces were formed from elements of the RWAFF then present in the country.

The military rifle cartridges of Sierra Leone

During World War I, the RWAFF's Martinis were replaced with various models of the Long Lee-Enfield rifle.

In 1914-1915, the RWAFF was part of an allied British/French/Belgian force that conquered the neighboring German colony of Kamerun.

The military rifle cartridges of Nigeria

During the Second World War, according to Killingray, "an officer of the RWAFF described the 'Hausa' of the 81st Division in eugenic terms as people who live 'in a healthy but poor country and the principle of the survival of the fittest has resulted in making them a remarkably tough race'.

Dying for Britain and France, for nothing: over one million Africans fought for Britain, France, Italy and Belgium in World War II, and yet their exploits have gone unmarked in the annals of the metropolitan powers. However, a new book, fighting for Britain--African soldiers in the Second World War, written by the British academic and historian, David Killingray, seeks to change all that. Osei Boateng reports

They later fought in the 81st Division, RWAFF, which defeated the Japanese at Myohaung in Burma.

Good night, good knight: Cameron Duodu profiles the first black officer in the British army, the remarkable but self-effacing Major Seth Anthony, who faced immense racial discrimination at Sandhurst and beyond, and survived it all--and went on to live for 93 years before his death on 20 November 2008