NAM.1965-04-64-254

Photograph of Lt Gen Sir Henry (Harry) Finnis KCB MC, General Officer Command in Chief, NW Army presenting OBI 1st Class to Hon Lt and Subadar Maj Ganga Ram, the Machine Gun Bn, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, at Rawalpindi November 1944, on the eve of the battalion's departure to join 7th Indian Division at Kohima. Some of the battalion's 64 Vickers medium machine guns can be seen lined up in front of the parade. Assisting General Officer Command in Chief was Lt Col D J Campbell (Commandant). From a photograph album of 328 photographs, 1922-1974 (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.