Four: Interpreter A. C. Bilali, King’s African Rifles

1914-15 Star (10104 Intr., 1/K/A.R.); British War and Victory Medals (10104 Inter., 1/K.A.R.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nyasaland 1915 (Intpr. Arthur C. Bilali, ‘H’ Coy. 1/K.A.R.) last with light edge bruising, nearly very fine (4)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards.

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Arthur C. Bilali, of the Nyanja Tribe, from the village of Mainuka, in the the district of Zomba, enlisted into the King’s African Rifles on 1 April 1909, aged 24 years. With the 1st Battalion, he served in the ‘Turkana Patrol’, 1910, and ‘Markweti Patrol’, 1911-12, both in British East Africa. Ranked as an Interpreter at the start of the Great War, he was wounded in action at Karonga, Nyasaland, 9 September 1914. The following year he served in the suppression of the Chilembwe Rebellion in the Shire Highlands. Bilali was discharged at Zomba on 31 May 1921. He later served as an Assistant Sub-Inspector in the Tanganyika Territory Police and Prisons. With copied service papers and other research.