NAM.1953-12-10-9

‘28th (Pioneer Regiment of Bombay Infantry, Kirkee 1898’. Photograph, India, 1898. Subjects are identified as: rear row (left to right’: Jemadar Sheikh Hassan, Jemadar Kishna Nikam, Jemadar Sirpot Padwal, Jemadar Kisoo Sawanth, Jemadar Maioji Tawde, Jemadar Surab Khan, Jemadar Karam Bir and Jemadar Umar Khan; third row (left to right): Lieutenant John Alan Faure Field, Subadar Sheikh Mohomed, Jemadar Zardad Khan, Lieutenant Jameson, Jemadar Ramji Rawal, Jemadar Krishna Jagtap, Lieutenant (later Major) Frank Macdonald Lane; second row seated (left to right): Captain David Birdwood Thomson, Subadar Major Ram Singh, Major (later Colonel) William St Lucien Chase (Victoria Cross), Subadar Hoskilji Israil, Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Louis Maurice Foster; first row (left to right): Jemadar Sheiv Narain, Lieutenant George Dashwood Maxwell Moore and Subadar Mohommed Khan. From an album of photographs relating to the 28th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, 128th Pioneers, 2nd and 3rd Battalions Bombay Pioneers, 1889-1930.