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Northern Rhodesia Regiment c.1934.
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Northern Rhodesia Regiment

My limited edition soldier depicts the Northern Rhodesia Regiment C.1934.

The Northern Rhodesia Regiment was formerly the Military wing of the Northern Rhodesia Police. This Military wing was subsequently divorced from the Police and constituted a separate military regiment under its present title. Two battalions were raised in the Great War and played a distinguished part in the operations in S.W. Africa in 1914, and in East Africa, 1914-1918. Its badge is a gold crested crane and it motto Diversi genere fide pares. Recruited from Africans of Northern Rhodesia, the Regiment WAS officered by British Offices.

Rhodesia was named after Cecil John Rhodes 1853 to 1902. Rhodes emigrated to South Africa in 1870 where he obtained a large interest in the Kimberley diamond mines. By 1888, he had amalgamated them into the De Beers Consolidated Mines, of which he became chairman. He was prominent in the politics of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (Prime Minister 1890-96). Much of his energy was devoted to the expansion of British imperialist interests in Southern Africa. This included the establishment of control over the area which became the future Rhodesia (today the state of Zimbabwe) for which he fought two wars in Matabeleland. He was also implicated in the Jameson Raid designed to subvert Boer rule in the Transvaal.

British Colonial Africana Soldier Collection

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Wooden Soldier Regimental Histories

All of our wooden soldiers are made in strictly limited editions, click here for a regimental history of each soldier.