[1] Made up of black other ranks and white officers, its motto was "Different in Race, Equal in Fidelity".

[2] This motto may have been adopted following native African porters during the First World War being recognised and compensated as couriers by the British.

[3] The NRR fought in the Second World War in Somaliland, Madagascar, the Middle East, Ceylon and Burma.

[2] The 1st Battalion fought in the Kabaw Valley offensive in 1944, as part of the 11th East African Division, in late 1944.

[7] Compared with many other colonial regiments in the British Empire, the black soldiers received more technical training.

The 1st Battalion was raised in 1939 and were sent to guard the Northern Rhodesian border with the Belgian Congo following a false report there was an invasion force preparing to pass through Portuguese Angola.

As a result, they were split and served out the rest of the war carrying out internal security and garrison duties.