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Thanks to RS for this collection of pictures starting from a time more than 150 years ago...

Sikh Cavalry Officers, British India Army, attending Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1873 in London, England.

circa 1919..
Photograph by Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973), India, North West Frontier,
Indian army camel corp in Miran shah..
From an album, of 74 photographs compiled by Neville John Gordon Cameron, 
1st Bn Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.

A British officer with his family, 1877, Mooltan.
Five Indian soldiers near Miranshah, Tochi Valley, Waziristan, 1898
Military encampment in the Razmak,1898
Indian soldiers and elephants, Multan, 1898
British and Indian soldiers with elephants, Multan, 1899
Hyderabad contingent regtl center band in Toochi..1895..
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and soldiers of World War II
Churchill introduced to Sikh VCOs in Shillong,1945..
4th Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army. Group portrait of the Sikh officers and British captains of the 14th Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army. Multan, Punjab, India (Pakistan), 1919.
Guest: Son of Duke of Connaught.
1st Estab of Indian troops in out skirts of Nowshera (probably present day Risalpur),1907.
06 December 2005 (16) edited
Payments by QM to COOLIE CORPS in Jamrood,1877.
The mutineers of 1857 were killed being tied to a cannon and blasted..these nations now teach us HUMAN RIGHTS and Geneva convention.
Abbottabad,1892..BUILDING????
Peshawar Punjab 1870
Photograph of Peshawar, with a view across the cantonment towards St John's Church and the distant mountains of the Khyber Pass, taken in 1878 by John Burke. John Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second Afghan War (1878-80), despite being rejected for the role of official photographer. He financed his trip by advance sales of his photographs 'illustrating the advance from Attock to Jellalabad'.
Football match 1903..(surprisingly RACE COURSE MURREE).
Guarding the Empire.
Officers of the 2nd Batallion, Worcestershire Regiment, Waziristan, British India, 1940. The vehicle is a Crossley "Indian Pattern" armoured car. These were developed in the interwar period for internal security duties in Northern India, based on a Crossley truck chassis. Substantial British and Indian Army forces were occupied in internal security in India during WW2, as the possibility of insurgency (encouraged by the proximity of Japanese forces from 1942) was a substantial concerrn. "Indian Pattern" armoured cars remained in service until Indian and Pakistani independence in 1947. The model here (like most others) was reconditioned in 1939, in the course of which the worn-out Crossley chassis was replaced with a Chevrolet truck chassis. Best regards, JR.
7th Rajputs British Indian Army Boxer Rebellion
5th Sikh in Mardan,1895..after an operation in Tirah valley..
1st Punjaub Cavalry 1893
5th Sikh Regt in Mardan..1895..
Toochi,1895..
Punjab frontier cavalry,1878..D I KHAN..
Gurkha band in Quetta,1902
1/66 Punjabi's band in Abbottabad,1895..
Deputy Commissioner Camblepore with his tamed cheetah..1895.
Peshawar..???
Nicholson monument 1903..
Armoured corps boys wings barracks,Cherat,1930s..now HQ SSG..
Commander in Chief of India Gen. Monro + staff inspecting barracks Gharial, nr. Murree India 1917..General Monro served as C-in-C India from 1916 through 1920, and was in charge during the 3rd Afghan War of 1919. His career was tarnished by the Amritsar Massacre..
Indo-afghan border 1898..
1879..
Inside attock bridge,,
1902..


Military hospital Nowshera,1888,the largest and last major hospital during the AFGHAN campaign..1878..

Queen mother inspecting Indian troops Delhi,1903..during DEHLI DARBAR.

SERVICE OF SERGEANT HARRY EWIN WITH THE ROYAL ARTILLERY IN INDIA DURING THE EARLY 1930s
No.11 Light Battery (RFA) drawn up on a parade ground in marching order with full equipment. in quetta,1930..
SERVICE OF SERGEANT HARRY EWIN WITH THE ROYAL ARTILLERY IN INDIA DURING THE EARLY 1930s
Scenes with a marching column on Kohat-Tall road,the North West Frontier of India: Crossley (India pattern) armoured cars and crews parked-up during the march. All crewmen are wearing Royal Tank Corps issue overalls.
SERVICE OF SERGEANT HARRY EWIN WITH THE ROYAL ARTILLERY IN INDIA DURING THE EARLY 1930s
Scenes with a marching column on the North West Frontier: Men of a British infantry piquet in a sangar during a break for tea (in army slang having 'a brew and a wad') at mohmmand..
FIELD MARSHAL THE VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN KG GCB DSO 1887-1976
Military Service 1914 - 1939: Lieutenant-Colonel Montgomery, Commanding Officer of the 17th (Empire) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers, with his officers outside a Bierstube in Durren during the occupation of the Ruhr.,from here he moved to command and staff college quetta as a DS,,
FIELD MARSHAL THE VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN KG GCB DSO 1887-1976
Military Service 1914 - 1939: Captain Bernard Montgomery DSO with a fellow officer of 104 Infantry Brigade, 35 Division, with which he served from January 1915 until early 1917. He was awarded the DSO for conspicuous gallantry on 13 October 1914 during the Battle of the Aisne in which he was wounded.
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