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Did you know Alliance High was built with ‘injury’ funds?

Alliance Boys main Administration block [Photo: Courtesy]

World War I saw Kenyans fight in a white man’s war they hardly understood. Most were recruited by force to serve as frontline porters, machine gun, stretcher and ammunition carriers, as well as cooks, ward orderlies, armed scouts, interpreters and personal servants.

Others worked as casual labourers and dug drains, built bridges, made roads, erected huts and repaired the railway line.

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