Quote Originally Posted by NoBueno
Which side did he proclaim to have served on...?
His GRANDFATHER served in WW1.

Hussein Onyango Obama
Barack Obama's paternal grandfather (c. 1895–1979).[57] (One source gives 1870–1975 as his dates of birth and death, possibly based on his tombstone in his home village.,[58] In 1988 Barack Obama found a British document based on a 1928 ordinance showing his grandfather as 35 years old. The date of the document must have been around 1930, which means that his grandfather had indeed been born around 1895.[59]) Onyango was the fifth son of his mother, Nyaoke, who was the first of the five wives of his father, Obama.[60] Barack Obama relates how his step-grandmother Granny Sarah (Sarah Onyango Obama) describes his grandfather: "Even from the time that he was a boy, your grandfather Onyango was strange. It is said of him that he had ants up his anus, because he could not sit still."[61] As a young man, he learned to speak, read and write in English.[62]
Onyango worked as a mission cook and as a local herbalist.[61] He joined the King's African Rifles[63] during World War I. . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama


King's African RiflesFrom Wikipedia

September 28, 1941. Personnel from the King's African Rifles (KAR) collect weapons surrendered by Italian forces at Wolchefit Pass, Ethiopia, following the end of the East African Campaign. (Photographer: Lt H. J. Clements.)

The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from the various British possessions in East Africa from 1902 until independence in the 1960s. It performed both military and internal security functions within the East African colonies as well as external service as recorded below. Rank and file were Africans called askaris, while most officers were seconded from British Army regiments. When raised there were some Sudanese officers in the Uganda raised battalions and towards the end of British colonial rule African officers were commissioned in the various battalions. . .
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