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‘Jullundur, 1909/10’, Battalion Staff, 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force)
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1952-12-4-3

Description

‘Jullundur, 1909/10’, Battalion Staff, 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force). Photograph, India, 1909. Back row (from left to right): Drill Naik Lal Khan; Quarter Master Havildar Hazara Singh; Head Clerk Chorhu Ram; Tindal Rijhu; Quarter Master Clerk Santokh Singh ‘Master’; Bugle Major Prem Singh; Havildar Major Kala Singh (’Killed Mesopotamia 1916’). Front row (from left to right): Jemadar Adjutant Mehv Wali; Captain (later Major General) Clement Arthur Milward (1877-1951); Colonel (later Major General Sir) Charles John Melliss (1862-1936) (Victoria Cross); Lieutenant (later Major) George Eyre Bruce; Jemadar Quarter Master Mola Singh (’Killed Mesopotamia 1916’). From an album of 44 photographs compiled by officers of 3rd Royal Battalion (Sikhs), 12th Frontier Regiment, re-designated the 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force), 1909-1922. Associated with the 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force).

Campaigns

World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918)

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