NAM.1951-01-43-12

Photograph: Group Engineer Officers. l to r. Lt Francis Burton Grant D’Aguilar; Lt Francis Bacon Longe; Lt E A Walker; Captain William Henry Haydon; Major E N Peters; Captain W W B Whiteford; Lt-Col J Hills; Lt M J Slater; Col Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John; Lt J R E Neville; Lt S A E Hickson; Dr John Bird Eaton; Lt W Coles; Lt C L Young. Photograph from an album of 34 photographs, 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880), 1880. Photographed by Benjamin Simpson. During the Afghan War the many tasks of the Royal Engineers, Bengal Sappers and Miners, Bombay Sappers and Miners and Madras Sappers and Miners included road-making, building posts on the line of communication, bridge building across rivers, camp and fort construction, laying telegraph lines and surveying.

2nd Afghan War (1878-1880)