On Arawali (Kurram) Aerodrome
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2024-05-6-1-61

Description

Photograph of an officer standing in front of a light aircraft at Arawali Aerodrome, 1925 (c). Arawali was an RAF airfield in the Kurram Valley, Rajasthan, India. He is wearing a coat and helmet with flying goggles. Mountains can be seen in the distance. Image taken by Capt Cecil Wotton Toovey MC, 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment attached to the 5/1st Punjab Regiment. 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)