A new recruit on the firing range, 1943 (c)

Photograph, World War Two, India, 1943 (c).

A volunteer begins his training in the use of the Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rifle (SMLE), the standard infantry weapon of the Indian Army. The 5th Mahratta Light Infantry's training establishment was at Belgaum.

Photograph from an album associated with 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, compiled by Major C W Boultwood, 1943.