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Officers of the 34th Sikh Pioneers, India, 1905 (c). Photograph, India, 1905 (c). The photograph is captioned: ‘C.O. Young, Clark & Hunt’. The officers are believed to be Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Harry Benn Borraidaile (1860-1948) who commanded the 34th Sikh Pioneers from 1902 to 1909, Captain Thomas Charles Young, Captain George Stanley Clarke and Lieutenant Cecil Edwin Hunt. Captain Cecil Edwin Hunt, recipient of the Military Cross, is recorded in the Hodson Index as having been wounded and missing on 19 December 1914, with his body being found at Givenchy in 1922. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his death as 19 December 1914 and his burial at the Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery at La Gorgue. From a photograph album containing 371 photographs compiled by Capt Alexander Masters, 34th Sikh Pioneers, 1905 (c)- 1911 (c).