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Photograph of Col Cecil Wotton Toovey, Commanding 3/1st Punjab Regiment, standing on a rocky hillside and smiling for the camera, Damdil, India (now Pakistan), September 1937. He is wearing khaki drill with shorts and is holding his pith helmet and a walking cane. He has binoculars and a bandolier across his chest, possibly a revolver on his right hip, and wears chuplis (leather Indian sandals) on his feet. Col Toovey had served for several years in India and had recently returned in February 1937. The image was sent to him with kindest regards by H L Khos, Damdil, September 1937. 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)