Insignia of East African Colonial Forces

Lot 8

Insignia of East African Colonial Forces A card of East African Colonial Insignia, including cap badges and shoulder-titles (STs) of East African Corps, including Armoured Corps, Engineers, Signals, etc, with a cap badge of the Kenya Independent Squadron (KIS) and two formation signs of the East Africa Command; a card with items of Southern African High Commission Territories, including five cap-badges of the Basutoland Mounted Police (two officers' richly gilt examples, one KC, the other QEC), a badge of the Botswana Prison Service, and badges (KC and QEC) and STs of the Swaziland Police; a card with insignia of Central and East African forces, including a cap-badge of the Somaliland Camel Corps; an officer's QEC cap and KC collar badges of the Somaliland Scouts and Police; a good KC cap of the Mauritius Public Works Dept; a cap and collar of the Sudanese Defence Force and other items; a card of Kenya colonial military and Police insignia, including metal cap-badges of 3rd, 5th and 7th Bns, and other units, of the King's African Rifles, including a bronze OSD of the Training Centre and Supply & Transport; cloth and metal shoulder titles of the KAR. Badges of KDF and Kenya Regiment (metal and anodised), together with buttons and badges and STs of Kenya Police; and a card of Kenya Post-Independence Insignia including AA cap badges of Kenya Rifles regiments and Corps and Kenya Police, with cloth Aircrew brevets and shoulder-flashes of the Kenya Air Force. (5 cards, 120 items)