Photograph of Naga Scouts employed with 8th Gurkha Rifles.
From photograph album of 101 photographs, including one loose, taken by Capt Smithers (Orderly Officer), Capt Melville (Staff Surgeon), Capt Poole (Reuters) dealing with the Abor Expedition (1911-1912).

The Nagas were a hill-tribe from the Assam-Burma border area. During the Abor Expedition of 1911-12 they were valued greatly as scouts, porters and labourers, a role they were to play again during the Burma campaign in the Second World War.