NAM.1953-12-10-35

‘3rd Bn. 2nd Bombay Pioneers. Meerut. Christmas Day 1928’. Photograph from an album of 37 photographs, 1889-1930. 3rd Battalion, 2nd Bombay Pioneers. Meerut, India, Christmas Day 1928. Rear row (left to right): Jemadars Labh Singh, Sirpati More, Nihal Khan; Subadar Binda Singh (Meritorious Service Medal); Jemadars Sohrab Khan, Daji Gujar and Fateh Mohomed; Subadar Krishna Kalange; middle row (left to right): Lieutenant (later temporary Brigadier) Ian Conaill Anthos Lauder (1904-1962), Captains John Fergus Kekwick and Douglas Richmond Stanley; Jemadar Munir Khan, Subadars Shadi Khan (Indian Distinguished Service Medal) and Laximanrao Ghag; Captain (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Gerard Lionel Tomkins (Military Cross; 1894-1963) and Captain (later Major)George Stanley Newman (1900-1965); front row (left to right): Captain (later Brigadier) Robert Douglas Whitehill (1892-1977), Captain W R Lloyd-Jones; Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Leonard William Henry Mathias (DSO) and Henry Blackwell (OBE), Lieutenant Colonel David Benjamin Gray (Military Cross, 1884-1942); Subadar-Major Hony Lieutenant Karam Singh Sardar Bahadur (Indian Distinguished Service Medal), Major Alfred William Pulverman, Captains Montagu Arthur Stephen Cousins and Roger Willis Kearns. Associated with 28th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, 128th Pioneers, 2nd and 3rd Bns Bombay Pioneers.