NAM.1953-12-11-13

‘3rd Bn, 2nd Bombay Pioneers. Meerut, 21st December 1928.’ Photograph, India, 1928. Captioned: ‘Group taken at the final inspection of the Battalion prior to reorganisation of Pioneers by H.E. the Commander-in-Chief.’. Photograph from an album of 27 photographs, 1870-1928. The group photograph has the subjects named as: rear row, left to right: Jemadar Karim Khan, Subadars Acchar Singh MSM, Binda Singh MSM, Abdul Latif Khan IOM, Shadi Khan IDSM, Jemadars Munir Khan, Sultan Khan, Laximanrao Ghag and Dajt Gujar; middle row, left to right: Captain W R Lloyd-Jones, Captain (later Brigadier) Robert Douglas Whitehill, ‘Major L.W.S Mathias DSO’ (Leonard William Henry Mathias), Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Henry Blackwell OBE, Lieutenant-Colonel David Benjamin Gray MC, Field Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief, Subadar-Major Honorary Lieutenant Karam Singh Sardar Bahadur IDSM, Major Alfred William Pulverman, Captains Cubitt Archer Grant Rundle MC, Gerard Lionel Tomkins MC and Roger Willis Kearns; front row, left to right: Subadar Krishna Kalange, Jemadars Sohrab Khan, Soirpati More, Captain George Stanley Newman, Jemadars Fateh Mohomed, Nihal Khan and Labh Singh. Associated with 128th Pioneers 1901-1928, 28th Bombay pioneers 1870-1901 and 3rd Bn 2nd Bombay Pioneers. Associated with India.