NAM.1953-12-14-10

‘10th Bn 2nd Bombay Pioneers’, caricatures by Captain W L Alston, 1925. Photograph, 1925 (c). A collection of 15 named caricatures of officers associated with the 10th Battalion, 2nd Bombay Pioneers, 1925. Top row (left to right): Lieutenant Colonel Francis Edward William Baldwin, playing tennis; Major Charles Hemsley (Distinguished Service Order) (1884-1961), seated in Mess Dress with trophy; Major Etienne Bossonnet Mangin (1884-1959) (Military Cross), in Mess Dress holding glass; Major Murray (Companion of the the Order of the Indian Empire), with riding crop; Major George Bevan Davies. Middle row (left to right): Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Cubitt Archer Grant Rundle (1893-1979) (Military Cross), holding lantern; Captain Henry Everton Robertson (Military Cross); Captain (later Brigadier) Robert Douglas Whitehill (1892-1977), wearing monocle; Captain Bernard Stafford Sowton riding with a dog; Captain (later Major General) Frank Hollamby Skinner (1897-1979), smoking a pipe, hunting with shotgun and dog. Lower row (left to right): Captain John Seager; Captain Roger Willis Kearns with cigar; Captain (later Brigadier) William Lowry Alston (self portrait) (1899-1982), with golf club; Lieutenant (later Captain) Roland Theodore Wroughton Macleod with hockey stick; Lieutenant (later Captain) Francis Douglas Kingsley Simmance, seated. From an album of 28 photographs, 1923-1932, compiled and photographed by the 2nd Bombay Pioneers, 1932.