RWAFF

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RWAFFRoyal 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
With the outbreak of World War II, the RWAFF served as a cadre for 81st and 82nd (West Africa) Divisions.
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
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