A Piper of the 39th Garhwal Rifles, 1910 (c).
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1966-05-44-1
Description
Photograph album of 113 photographs compiled by Capt Arthur Septimus Brookes, 18th Infantry, 39th Garhwal Rifles and 18th Garhwal Rifles, 1910 (c)-1933. Associated with Aden and Lansdowne. Showing groups, the Durbar parade 1911, views, signallers, officers in full dress, Egypt and Mesopotamia, staff, civilians, soldiers, a band and pipes, operations and the North West Frontier. The Garhwalis came from the Garhwal Hills in the Himalayan district of the United Provinces (now Uttarakhand in India). Originally they were recruited into Gurkha regiments but the British were so impressed by their martial abilities that in 1887 they raised a separate Garhwal regiment.
Events
Delhi Durbar, 1911 (Ceremonial Events 1900-1999)
Associated collection
