Signallers, 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force), 1909 (c).
Photograph, 1909 (c).
A group of signallers equipped with signalling flags, lamps, telescopes and heliographs.
Subjects are named as Kehr Singh; Farman Ali; Jamal Din; Bir Singh; Allah Khan (Indian Order of Merit); Lieutenant (later Major) G E Bruce; Ferez Khan (noted as ‘Killed’); Pala Singh; Sakhi Muhd; Mir Awas; Timar Khan.
From an album of 44 photographs compiled by officers of 3rd Royal Battalion (Sikhs), 12th Frontier Regiment, re-designated the 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force), 1909-1922.