Men of the 2nd Northern Nigerian Regiment resting at night on the march home from Waji, December 1902

Photograph, West Africa, 1902.

The three battalions of the Northern Nigerian Regiment were part of the West African Frontier Force, a multi-battalion field force set up by the Colonial Office to garrison Britain's West African colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Gambia and Sierra Leone.

From an album of 145 photographs associated with the Nigeria Regiment, 1901-1902.