photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1994-06-176-1
Description
Group photograph relating to an anti-tank course No 80, School of Infantry Support Weapons Wing, Netheravon, Wiltshire, Nov 1955. Showing Sgt W Bull, 1st Bn Somerset Light Infantry, wearing his sash the reverse way to Sgt D A Saunders, 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards. This was a regimental custom of the Somerset Light Infantry dating from the siege of Jellalabad, 1842, 1st Afghan War.
Events
Jellalabad, Siege of, 1842 (1st Afghan War 1838-1842)