Kenya Regiment

Kenya Regiment
Regimental badge, showing a charging cape buffalo
Active1937–1939
1950–1963
CountryKenya Kenya Colony
Uganda Uganda Protectorate
Allegiance British Empire
BranchTerritorial Army
ColoursBrown, red and green
EngagementsMau Mau Uprising

The Kenya Regiment was a unit of the British Army recruited primarily among white settlers in Kenya and to a lesser extent Uganda. Formed in 1937, it was disbanded at the oubreak of World War II in 1939.[citation needed] It was reformed in 1950 and participated in the suppression of the Mau Mau uprising (1952–56). It was finally disbanded on Kenyan independence in May 1963.