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Default ORBAT British Army Foreign Stations 03.09.39. [4]

XIV. The Royal West Africa Frontier Force
A. Nigeria
RHQ, The Nigeria Regiment: Kaduna
1st Battalion, The Nigeria Regiment: Kaduna
2nd Battalion, The Nigeria Regiment: Kano
3rd Battalion, The Nigeria Regiment (Less One Company): Enugu
4th Battalion, The Nigeria Regiment: Ibadan One Company: Lagos
5th Battalion, The Nigeria Regiment: Zaria Detachments: Maiguguri and Sokolo
1st Nigeria Light Artillery Battery: Zaria
Signals Company: Zaria
The Lagos Defence Force (European Reserve Force): Lagos
The Engineer Cadre (European Reserve Force): Lagos
B. The Cameroons
'B' Company, 3rd Battalion, The Nigeria Regiment: Victoria
C. The Gold Coast
RHQ, The Gold Coast Regiment: HQ Kumasi
1st Battalion, The Gold Coast Regiment: Kumasi
2nd Battalion, The Gold Coast Regiment: Tamale
1 Section, Light Artillery: Accra
Signal Section: Kumasi
3rd Battalion, The Gold Coast Regiment (Gold Coast Territorial Force): Winneba
The Gold Coast Regiment (Supplementary Reserve)
The Gold Coast Defence Force (European Reserve Force)
D. Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leone Signal Section, Royal Corps of Signals
39th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers
The Sierra Leone Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery: Freetown
The Sierra Leone Battalion: Wilberforce, Freetown
E. The Gambia
The Gambia Company: Cape St. Mary

XV. East Africa Force
A. British Somaliland
HQ and HQ Company, The Somaliland Camel Corps: Laferug
'A' (Camel) Company: Hargeisa
'B' (Nyasa Infantry) Company: Tug Argen
'C' Company: Burao
'D' Company: Tug Argen (Less 2 Platoons at Sheik)
B. Kenya
The Northern Brigade: HQ Nairobi
The Coast Defence Rifle Company, King's African Rifles: Mombasa (Defended Port of Kilindini)
3rd Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Nairobi
4th Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Mombasa
'A' Company: Turkana
5th Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Nanyuki
1st Battalion, The Kenya Regiment (European Territorial Force): Nairobi
No. 1 Company: Nairobi
No. 2 Company: Nakura
No. 3 Company: Eldoret
The Coast Defence Battery, The Kenya Regiment (ETF): Mombasa
22nd Mountain Battery, Indian Artillery: Left Quetta, India on 1 September 1939 and arrived in East Africa on 11 September 1939
The Kenya Defence Force
C. Tanganyika Territory
The Southern Brigade: HQ Dar es Salaam
1st Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Moshi
HQ, 'A' Company, 2nd Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Iringa
'B' Company, 2nd Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Mbeya
6th Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Dar el Salaam
'B' Company, 6th Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Tanga Province
'D' Company, 6th Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Iringa
D. Uganda
7th Battalion, The King's African Rifles (Uganda Territorial Force): Bombas
E. Nyasaland
'C' Company, 2nd Battalion, The King's African Rifles: Zomba
The Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve (European)
F. Northern Rhodesia
1st Battalion, The Northern Rhodesia Regiment: Bwana Mkubwa
G. Southern Rhodesia
No.1 Group, The Rhodesia Regiment: HQ Salisbury
One Company Recruits
One Company Leader Training
One Company Specialists (HQ Company)
One Light Artillery Battery (3.7cm Howitzers)
One Detached Company: Umtali
No.2 Group, The Rhodesia Regiment: HQ Salisbury
One Company Recruits
One Company Leader Training
One Company Specialists (HQ Company)
One Reconnaissance Company
One Detached Company: Gwelo
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