Surgeons and physicians of Kabul, 1879

Photograph by John Burke, 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880), 1879.

Burke took this photograph of a group of Afghan doctors when he was with Major-General Frederick Roberts' Kabul Field Force which had first entered the city in October 1879. He remained with the soldiers, photographing the city and its diverse inhabitants, until the Field Force's departure in May 1880.

From a collection compiled by Surgeon Henry Walter Bellew.