NAM.2001-07-1168-8

Photograph postcard of Sgt Maj Cheal with the Kings School OTC, at ease on parade ground, 1910 (c). One of 9 photographs relating to RSM Thomas Cheal, 1st and 3rd Bn the Buffs Regiment, 1883-1908. RSM Cheal served in Malta, Singapore and India and was appointed Sergeant Major in 1895, and Regimental Sergeant Major, Depot, the Buffs in 1901. He also fought in the Chitral Relief Force, 1895, and the South Africa War, 1900-1901. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.

Boer War (1899-1902), India, North West Frontier, Chitral Expedition (1895)