Two soldiers of 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles, with dogs, 1911-12.
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1965-04-60-27
Description
Photograph of ‘Bab’ and ‘Jumbo’ with members of 1st/8th Gurkha Rifles, 1911-12. From an album of 100 photographs taken by Capt Douglas Henry Randall Giffard, 8th Gurkha Rifles, India, Abor Expedition, 1911-1912. ‘Bab’ and ‘Jumbo’, two dogs presented to the 1st Battalion by the wife of one of the officers, were awarded the India General Service Medal 1908-35. According to the regimental history, the dogs ‘gave warning that the enemy were in the neighbourhood’ of the battalion during the Abor Expedition (1911-12). This expedition was carried out to punish the perpetrators of a massacre of a British colonial official, a doctor and their labourers on the Assam border.
Campaigns
India, Abor Expedition (1911-1912)
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