NAM.1987-08-27-12

Photograph showing a seated smoking soldier, wrapped in a white towel, in the process of having his hair cut by a uniformed, possibly Indian, barber. In the background is an encampment of bell tents on a grassy plain, with a group of soldiers sitting outside a tent wearing foreign service dress and a stack of rifles, Standerton, South Africa, probably Jun, 1900. From 31 photographs mostly relating to the Boer War, compiled by Capt W E L Stewart, 1900. Mounted on a sheet from a photograph album.

Boer War (1899-1902)