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‘28th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry 1870’. Photograph, 1870. Officers of the 28th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry. The officers, with two omissions are named: ‘Captain Kershaw’, ‘Major Thomas Rose Nimmo’, ‘Colonel Charles Augustus Moyle’, ‘Major William Henry Newport’ and ‘Lieut Francis Corbert Singleton’. Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) William Henry Newport was born in Bombay and educated in England at Cheltenham College. In 1855 he was gazetted to the 3rd Bombay European Regiment and served in the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). He served with the 18th Bombay Native Infantry in Abyssinia (1867). He was mortally wounded during a sortie from Kandahar on 16 August 1880, during the 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880). From an album of 27 photographs, 1870-1928.

Kandahar, Siege of, 1880 (2nd Afghan War 1878-1880), Deh Khoja, Action at, 1880 (2nd Afghan War 1878-1880)