Photograph of Royal Engineers in Engineer’s Park, 1878-1880.
From an album of 60 photographs by John Burke, 1878-1880.

Associated with Maj Gen Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880).
During the 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880), the 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.