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7 Kenya Rifles is a battalion of the Kenya Army Infantry. It came into being on June 8, 1968, at Gilgil in a British army camp which had been abandoned since 1964.[1] The first commanding officer of the unit Was Lt Col Wambua. The unit relocated to its current base at Langata in 1973.[2] The Maroon Commandos is a military band belonging to the battalion.[3]
^Sethi, Kanwal (November 29, 2016). Shaping Destiny. FriesenPress. ISBN 9781460293768 – via Google Books.
^Kenya Yearbook Editorial Board 2010, p. 426.
^"Soldier marches back to his roots". Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
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