MAU MAU REBELLION AGAINST BRITISH RULE 1954-1960

[Gil Boyd]

Just returned from a visit to my son and his family who are currently staioned in Kenya.

I have always been interested in the plight of this small African nation where the future Queen Elizabeth whilst on her honeymoon with Prince Philip at "Treetops" learnt of her fathers death King George the 6th in 1952.

What was to follow in the next 8 years was to a very bloody campaign waged against the British in an attempt to kick them out of Kenya, which they finally succeeded with the loss of a lot of British lives!!

Look at the Police raid on a village on the Youtube footage and in particular the recovery of the home made weapons one of which I saw in the Nairobi Museum last week on display. Incredible ingenuity from very poor labourers and farm workers!
Look at the second photo and the Sten barrel on the left a no4 in the centre and a no5 on the right in use.
The last photo shows members of the Kenya Colonial Police with thier own outdated rifles and equipment!

Thought it might provoke some interest in operations there over that period in cluding Operation Scaramouche

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