Photograph: Defensive position of ‘C’ Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Jat Regiment, in Waziristan, 1922-23.

This Indian solider is armed with a Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rifle and a Lewis machine-gun. These were the main infantry weapons for the British and Indian Armies in the First World War and most of the inter-war period

From album of 154 photographs compiled by T M Layng, 10th Jats, 1923-1925.
Associated with India, North West Frontier (1920-1937), 1923-1924.
Fifth in a collection of six albums.