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Photograph of the second bridge over the Bara river, Waziristan (Pakistan), called Mazarai Bridge, 1931. With operations extending from the Kajuri Plain to the Aka Khel Plain, a further bridge was needed. Some soldiers can be seen on the bridge and on either side of the river. Image taken by Indian photographer Baljee. Image 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. The 'Inglis' pattern bridge - a prefabricated portable bridge - was named after its inventor, Lt later Professor Sir, Charles Inglis, (1875-1952) - was constructed across the Bara River by No 5 Field Company King George's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners. The specifications required that it be capable of taking 12-ton steam rollers. 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)