PESHAWAR
PESHAWAR
Album of Col. H.C. Patton commanding 2nd Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, principally in India 1883-1884, 31 albumen prints (2 loosely inserted), quarter moroco, rubbed, images 210 x 315mm. or smaller, oblong folio, 1881-1885
Sold for £400 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Chronologically the earliest images are of Alderney (1881-1882) where a detachment of the 2nd battalion formed the garrison (includes a group photograph of the officers), followed by three Egyptian views (Suez and Khedive's Palace). The regimental groups in India are all named and include: Adjutant and Sergeants; The Band; Officers (2); Carey and Wolseley's Bungalow; My Tent, Servants & Horses; The Elephant Battery, Peshawar (Major Stracker); Fort Jumrood...visited by Carey, Wolseley, Davies & myself 23rd November 1882; Fort Peshawar; St. John's, Peshawar; Kuki-Khels; Northern Entrance to Peshawar City; Rawal Pindi Camp...on March from Peshawar to Umballa; Grand Trunk Road over the Sohan River; 2nd Cheshire Regiment at Rewat (3); Our Bungalow, Umballa, as well as a view of The Warren, Lymington, home of John Patton, R.N.

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