Uniforms of the Royal West African Frontier Force

[Trooper_D]

I would never have expected to find an article setting out the experiences of a 1950s National Service officer seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force in that bastion of post-colonial liberalism, The Guardian. I was delighted, therefore, to find this:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/07/queen-commonwealth-tour-nigeria-thats-me-in-picture

not least for the magnificent photograph of the Queen inspecting a RWAFF Guard of Honour, which shows very clearly the uniforms of the locally-enlisted troops and the European officers (as usual, click to see a larger version).

Edited October 15, 2016 by Trooper_D
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