A Gurkha soldier demonstrates how to use the kukri fighting knife, November 1944

Photograph, World War Two, North West Frontier, India, 1944.

The display of weapons handling and fighting techniques took place during the visit of the Commander-in-Chief India, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, to the Gurkhas on the North-West Frontier in November 1944.

From a collection of 233 official photographs collected by Captain Roy Wiltshire in his capacity as Editor of the Indian Army Review.