Members of the 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) at Rawalpindi, 1864

Photograph, India, 1864.

The 101st Foot was originally an East India Company regiment (raised in 1652) that switched to British Army control in 1862. This photograph was taken just after the regiment had taken part in the Umbeyla campaign on the North-West Frontier (1863-1864). In 1868 it embarked at Bombay and landed in England for the first time the following year.

From an album of 99 items including photographs, watercolours, press cuttings and prints, 1853-1878, compiled by Colonel Montague Hall.