NAM.1980-05-151-3

Volume III (a) 1931-1933 Chapter 17. Service with 1st Bn Bombay Pioneers 1931-33 - Company Commander at Poona. Feb-Mar 1932 at Nowshera to sit Staff College Exams. 2 months' leave in England Aug-Sept. Moved to Landi Kotal in the Khyber for road works - back at Poona Nov. Regt disbanded Feb 1933. Includes short history of Bombay Pioneers, photograph of regt on disbandment, and examples of their construction work. From a collection of papers relating to Brigadier William Alston (1899-1982).