NAM.1965-04-64-191

Photograph of Havildar Tara Singh, 6th Royal Bn (Scinde), 13th Frontier Force Rifles, firing his machine gun in support of the 1st Bn, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s), during the Battle of Monte Cerere, December 1944. In October 1948 a silver statuette, based on this photograph, was presented to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to commemorate the close association of the two Battalions in Italy, in return for the latter's gift of a full-dress breast plate, as worn by an officer of the 91st Regiment of Foot. On 6 May 1945, the two Battalions celebrated VE Day in the main square of Costa Di Rivigo, with Highland and Khattak dancing and the playing of a march composed by Pipe Maj P McGlin, entitled 'The 91st and 59th at Monte Cerere'. From a photograph album of 328 photographs, 1938-1974 (c). The album was originally compiled by Capt Hubert Gervais Lennox Brain, 6th Royal Bn, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Instructor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1938. Presented by the Officers of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles, to The Royal Military College, Sandhurst, to give Cadets who wished to join the Indian Army an idea of life in the regiment.

World War Two, Italy (1943-1945)

Victory in Europe Day, 1945 (World War Two, North West Europe 1944-1945)