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Pencil drawing of Zer Hill in Eidak, Waziristan. From a Sketchbook with 28 pages of sketches of Mesopotamia and Waziristan, 1917-19, by Captain (later Maj Gen) Cecil Wotton Toovey MC, whilst attached to the 82nd Punjabis. Includes pencil, watercolour and coloured crayon scenes of people and places, some captioned, including Basra and Jandola Fort. Toovey was educated at Malvern College and commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment from the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps on 3 May 1913. He served with his regiment during the early part of the First World War before transferring to the Indian Army in 1917, where he was attached to the 82nd Punjabis. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for leading a counterattack in December 1919 on Black Hill Piquet when wounded in command of a mixed force led by the 82nd Punjabis on the North West Frontier.

India, North West Frontier, Waziristan (1919-1920)