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Campbell, Guy : The Charging Buffalo: A History of the Kenya Regiment 1937-1963

London: Leo Cooper / Secker & Warburg1986

Hardback, first edition, very good condition, 9.5" x 6", in a very good unclipped (£14.95) dust-jacket, publisher's original tan clothboards with gilt blocking to spine, internally clean,tight and bright, 181 pages including index, 30 b/w photo illustrations, b/w map, copy of Campbell's Daily Telegraph obituary dated 21 July 1993 loosley laid inside; -------------Contents include: Introduction; The Early History of Kenya; Between the Wars; The Regiment Re-formed; The Mau Mau Emergency; Ray Force, I Force and the KPR Air Wing; Cleaning-Up Operations; Problems of Commanding the Regiment; 'A Rum Lot'; The Regimental Permanent Staff; The Last Years of the Regiment; Independence and After; APPENDICES Up to and including the Second World Wara. Kenya Defence Force 1931b. Roll of the Original Staff of the Kenya Regiment (TF) 1937c. Kenya Regiment Establishment 1937-9d. Roll of Honour 1939-45e. Some Names of Members of the Kenya Regiment 1937-45-------------The history of the Kenya Regiment from its foundation in 1937 to 1963. 'The Kenya Regiment now only exists in the memories of those who served in it. Its short life covers two periods: the first, 1936 - 45, when the Regiment was active in the Second World War in Africa, Madagascar and Burma; the second, 1950 - 63, when it helped to cope with the Mau Mau Emergency in Kenya and continued to train soldiers until the Declaration of Independence in 1963. It was the most junior or regiments in the Army List and it was the shortest lived.

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