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Photograph of 12 officers from the Headquarters of the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade, possibly Karawal Camp, India (Pakistan), 1930. They pose for the image in three rows in front of a wall made of sandbags and a tent. Brig Edmund Byam Mathew-Lannowe sits in the centre between the two men seated on the floor. He was the Commander of the 2nd Rawalpindi Infantry Brigade. Next to him, also wearing his peaked cap, is Brigade Major Cecil Wotton Toovey MC, 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment attached to the 5/1st Punjab Regiment. Toovey was Brigade Major for the 2nd Rawalpindi Infantry Brigade, Northern Command between 1929 and 1931. 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).

India, North West Frontier (1920-1937)