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Postcard photograph of some form of ceremony, possibly related to the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade, India, 1930-32 (c). Two field guns and a display of drums are surrounded by some plants and are cordoned off. Soldiers wit their rifles on their shoulders are stationed at various points and tents, horses and other soldiers can be seen in the background. Image by Indian photographer Baljee. 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. 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)