Right at the flag post of Meru teachers training college there is metal plaque mounted on a stone structure commemorating the presence of the military base. Tales by elders refer to presence of soldiers practicing their drills in the 1920s and the whole place was sectioned into different units. This military base is said to have been vacated by the King’s African Rifles army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and moved to Nanyuki
The stone structure has 2 metal replica bayonets / swords screwed on its top making an X sign. The metal plaque bears the following inscriptions:
This memorial commemorates the 3rd and the 5th battalions the King’s African riffles which was stationed here alternately from 24th may 1921 to 1st April 1939
