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Photograph of members of the Sergeants Mess, 7th Battalion Gold Coast Regiment, 81st Infantry Division, Royal West African Frontier Force, including RQMS Ronald James Mepham (seated in the middle row, second from the right), India, 1945. The group sits or stands in three rows, with the officer, Lt Col Duncan Graeme Dickson MC seated in the centre, with trees behind them. The British soldiers are wearing khaki drill service dress, whilst the three African soldiers wear a white uniform with a cummerbund and tasselled fez hat. Another picture of the same image in Mepham's collection names them as (from left to right): Back Row: S/Sgt Orton; Sgt. Bodicombe; C.S.M. Searle; C/Sgt Warriner; Sgt. Milne; Sgt. Glover; C.S.M. Thomas Middle Row: Kofi Awusu; O.R.Q.M.S. Atherton; R.S.M. Brownlee; Lt. Col. Dickson M.C.; R.Q.M.S. Mepham; C.S.M. Gregg; Mama Gonja Front Row: Cpl. Kanjarga From an album of 44 photographs relating to RQMS Ronald J Mepham, MBE, East Surrey Regiment and 7th Battalion, Gold Coast Regiment, 81st (West Africa) Division, (c) 1944-46.

World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)