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Postcard photograph by Indian photograph Baljee captioned: ‘Subedar’s House’, showing a stone house complex on a hill with surrounding mountains, India (now Pakistan), 1930-31(c). Some men, probably soldiers, can be seen standing on one of the walls. A handwritten caption suggests the place is called ‘Wucha Garhi’.Collected by Bt Maj Cecil Wotton Toovey MC, 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment attached to the 5/1st Punjab Regiment. Toovey was Brigade Major for the 2nd Rawalpindi Infantry Brigade, Northern Command between 1929 and 1931. From a photograph album of 139 images and one press cutting of India, Iraq, Waziristan, 1915-1939 (c), by Maj Gen C W Toovey MC, Middlesex Regiment and the 82nd Punjabis (later the 5/1st Punjab Regiment).

India, North West Frontier (1920-1937)