New recruit learning musketry drill, 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, Belgaum, 1943 (c)
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1982-10-31-10
Description
Photograph of a new recruit learning musketry drill, 1943 (c). The 5th Mahratta Light Infantry’s training establishment was at Belgaum. During the Second World War its administrative and instructional staff trained and equipped thousands of recruits and made possible the maintenance in the field of five regular battalions and the raising of many new hostilities only ones. From album of 37 photographs associated with 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, compiled by Maj C W Boultwood, 1943 (c). Associated with World War Two (1939-1945).
Campaigns
World War Two (1939-1945)