Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private Sanjani, King’s African Rifles

British War and Victory Medals (3660 Pte. Sanjani, 1/K.A.R.) mounted for wear, some edge bruising, nearly very fine (2)
£40-60

Sanjani, of the Anyanja Tribe, from the village of Chisawo, from the district of Chiradzulu, enlisted into the King’s African Rifles on 16 February 1917, aged 25 years. He saw action against the German forces in Portuguese East Africa at Lioma, 30-31 August 1917. Von Lettow later said that ‘Lioma’ had been his ‘narrowest escape’. In the two day engagement he lost 17 Europeans killed, 11 captured, with about 200 Askaris and a large quantity of stores and ammunition. Sanjani was discharged as time expired on 29 January 1920.

With copied service papers and other research.