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Postcard photograph showing Brig Edmund Byan Mathew-Lannowe, Commander of the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade, surveying the action through his binoculars as he sits on a shooting stick - a portable folding seat with a metal point to dig into the ground for support, Wucha Garhi, India (now Pakistan), 1930-31 (c). His Brigade Major, Bt Maj Cecil Wotton Toovey MC, 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment attached to the 5/1st Punjab Regiment, stands next to him looking a a map and holding his shooting stick. Toovey was Brigade Major for the 2nd Rawalpindi Infantry Brigade, Northern Command between 1929 and 1931. Taken by Indian photograph Baljee. 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)