Photograph showing two Chinese soldiers operating a 6 inch trench mortar, China, 1928 (c). One soldier holds the mortar bomb and the other kneels beside the mortar. A small wooden hut can be seen behind them. They are possibly soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government in Nanjing. Associated with Col. William Frederick Blaker who was a Royal Artillery staff officer in North China Command from 1927-1929.

From a collection of 40 loose items, mainly photographs but also a few postcards and envelopes, compiled by Col. William Frederick Blaker (1877-1933), Royal Artillery, and associated with China and Japan, 1927-1929 (c).