Ghodbundar Camp. Staff College Combined Exercise, Salsette Island, 1925.
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2024-05-6-1-56
Description
Photograph of the tented Ghodbundar Camp, set amongst trees, India, Salsette Island, India, 1925. Image taken by Capt Cecil Wotton Toovey MC, 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment attached to the 5/1st Punjab Regiment. Capt Toovey attended the Staff College at Quetta from 1924 to 1926 and they visited this part of India near Bombay for a Combined Exercise during their training. From a photograph album of 139 images and one press cutting of India, Iraq, Waziristan, 1915-1939 (c), by Maj Gen C W Toovey MC, Middlesex Regiment and the 82nd Punjabis (later the 5/1st Punjab Regiment).
Campaigns
India, North West Frontier (1920-1937)
Units