Indian troops on a mountainside in Waziristan, with Shilmanzai in the distance, 1919

Photograph, India, North West Frontier, 1919.

Around 10,000 troops from the Indian Army took part in the campaign in Waziristan in 1919-1920 to re-establish British control of the area on the border between India and Afghanistan.

From an album of 116 photographs taken and compiled by T M Layng, 62nd Brigade, Waziristan Force, May 1919 to September 1920 during the Waziristan Campaign, North West Frontier.