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Read the year, location and note the healthy state of troops/animals and equipment in these photographs,................ look at the surrounding country side/cities, how barren and arid, at the amalgamation of troops, their origin and place of deployment. Its our history. circa 1919.. Photograph by Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973), India, North West Frontier, indian army camel corp in miran shah.. From an album, of 74 photographs compiled by Neville John Gordon Cameron, 1st Bn Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. a british officer with his family,1877,mooltan.. football match 1903..(surprisingly RACE COURSE MURREE).. Officers of the 2nd Batallion, Worcestershire Regiment, Waziristan, British India, 1940. The vehicle is a Crossley "Indian Pattern" armoured car. These were developed in the interwar period for internal security duties in Northern India, based on a Crossley truck chassis. Substantial British and Indian Army forces were occupied in internal security in India during WW2, as the possibility of insurgency (encouraged by the proximity of Japanese forces from 1942) was a substantial concerrn. "Indian Pattern" armoured cars remained in service until Indian and Pakistani independence in 1947. The model here (like most others) was reconditioned in 1939, in the course of which the worn-out Crossley chassis was replaced with a Chevrolet truck chassis. Best regards, JR. Sikh Cavalry Officers, British India Army,  attending Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1873 in London, England. 5th sikh in mardan,1895..after an operation in tirah valley.. Peshawar Punjab 1870 Photograph of Peshawar, with a view across the cantonment towards St John's Church and the distant mountains of the Khyber Pass, taken in 1878 by John Burke. John Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second Afghan War (1878-80), despite being rejected for the role of official photographer. He financed his trip by advance sales of his photographs 'illustrating the advance from Attock to Jellalabad'. 5th sikh regt in mardan..1895.. Five Indian soldiers near Miranshah, Tochi Valley, Waziristan, 1898  Military encampment in the razmak,1898  Indian soldiers and elephants, Multan, 1898  British and Indian soldiers with elephants, Multan, 1899 hyderabad contingent regtl center band in toochi..1895.. toochi,1895.. punjab frontier cavalry,1878..D I KHAN.. gurkha band in quetta,1902.. churchill introduced to sikh VCOs in shillong,1945.. 4th Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army. Group portrait of the Sikh officers and British captains of the 14th Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army. Multan, Punjab, India (Pakistan), 1919. war wounded indian troops with youngest son of duke of cannaught. 1st estab of indian troops in out skirts of nowshera (probably present day risalpur),1907.. payments by QM to COOLIE CORPS in jamrood,1877.. 1/66 punjabi's  band in abbottabad,1895.. deputy commissioner camblepore with his tamed tiger..1895.. peshawar..??? the mutineers of 1857 wer killed being tied to a cannon and blasted..these nations now teach us HUMAN RIGHTS and geneva convention.   Nicholson monument 1903..   armoured corps boys wings barracks,cherat,1930s..now HQ SSG.. Commander in Chief of India Gen. Monro + staff inspecting barracks Gharial, nr. Murree India 1917..General Monro served as C-in-C India from 1916 through 1920, and was in charge during the 3rd Afghan War of 1919. His career was tarnished by the Amritsar Massacre.. indo-afghan border 1898.. 1879.. inside attock bridge,, 1902.. abbottabad,1892..BUILDING???? military hospital nowshera,1888,the largest n last major hospital during the AFGHAN campain..1878.. cartoons published in idia against rect in d army during 2nd WW.. queen mother inspecting indian troops delhi,1903..during DEHLI DARBAR.. No.11 Light Battery (RFA) drawn up on a parade ground in marching order with full equipment. in quetta,1930.. Scenes with a marching column on kohat-tall road,the North West Frontier of India: Crossley (India pattern) armoured cars and crews parked-up during the march. All crewmen are wearing Royal Tank Corps issue overalls. Scenes with a marching column on the North West Frontier: Men of a British infantry piquet in a sangar during a break for tea (in army slang having 'a brew and a wad') at mohmmand.. Military Service 1914 - 1939: Lieutenant-Colonel Montgomery, Commanding Officer of the 17th (Empire) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers, with his officers outside a Bierstube in Durren during the occupation of the Ruhr.,from here he moved to command and staff college quetta as a DS,, Military Service 1914 - 1939: Captain Bernard Montgomery DSO with a fellow officer of 104 Infantry Brigade, 35 Division, with which he served from January 1915 until early 1917. He was awarded the DSO for conspicuous gallantry on 13 October 1914 during the Battle of the Aisne in which he was wounded.

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