photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2024-02-14-1-1

Description

Card-mounted group photograph of ten officers, 128th Bombay Pioneers, taken at Meerut, India, on the 4th of February 1920. They sit or stand in two rows, with trees behind them. They are wearing khaki drill with Sam Browne belts and either riding boots or puttees and ankle boots. The image includes Lt George Stanley Newman (1900-1965), and the image was taken when he had just joined the 128th Bombay Pioneers - he later transferred to the 17th Dogra Regiment. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Lt Douglas Richmond Stanley; Lt William A J Pollock-Gore; Lt Roger Willis Kearns; Lt James Eric Mawson; Lt George Stanley Newman Front Row: Capt Reginald Simson England; Lt Col Napier George B Goodfellow C.I.E.; Lt Col Alfred C S B Ellis; Maj Dudley Stevens Graham and Lt William Rice Lloyd-Jones.