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Kikuyu Home Guard
The Kikuyu Home Guard (also ''Home Guard'' or ''Kikuyu Guard'') existed from early 1953 until January 1955. It was formed in response to attacks by the Mau Mau.
== History of the Home Guard ==
Named to invoke an association with its British 'equivalent' from WWII, the Home Guard began life as an amalgamation of several hundred Tribal Police (later called the Administration Police) and the private armies which were established by loyalist leaders in the wake of Mau Mau attacks.〔 The Tribal Police had been around since the late 1920s, and was a loyalist organisation "composed mostly of the sons and close relatives of chiefs and headmen."〕 Clayton calls these early, ''ad hoc'' anti Mau Mau groups the Kikuyu Resistance Groups, which appeared in the last part of 1952. Its creation was an extremely divisive development within Kikuyu society.〔 Kikuyu resistance to Mau Mau encompassed more than just security formations; things like counter-oathing also took place.〕 Its divisive nature was absolutely ensured by Baring's government's tentative desire to give the Home Guard the appearance of being a Kikuyu-led initiative.〔 Officially sanctioned by the colonial government, at its peak, in 1954, the Home Guard numbered more than 25,000 men—more than the number of Mau Mau fighters in the reserves. Many joined voluntarily for a variety of reasons, but particularly once the battle had begun to shift decisively against Mau Mau by late 1954; however, in some districts, up to 30% of Home Guard members were press-ganged.
Major-General Sir William 'Loony' Hinde〔http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1954/jun/22/major-general-hinde-kenya-statement〕 put the Home Guard under command of European district officers—these district officers were not trained military personnel, but rather settlers or career, often quite junior, colonial-officers. Hinde recruited Colonel Philip Morcombe to head up the Home Guard. Once set up, it quickly began working alongside the British military. Within a month of the Lari massacre, 20% of the Home Guard were armed with shotguns and given a uniform, and eventually nearly all of them would be supplied with precision weapons of some kind and uniformed.
By 1955 the majority of the Guard were stood down, since Mau Mau no longer constituted a major threat, and the remainder of the guard were absorbed into the Tribal Police.
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