'128th Pioneers Allahabad, 1914'

Photograph, 1914.

Captioned, 'Group Taken Before Proceeding on Field Service'.

Subjects names are recorded below photograph. Rear row, from left to right: Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Cecil Elliot Godfrey Boileau Goad, Lieutenant (later Major) A W Pulverman, Lieutenant Richard Apjohn Fitz Gibbon (died in Egypt in 1915), Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel) Leonard William Henry Mathias, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel) Cubitt Archer Grant Rundle, Captain Andrew Munro Jukes, Indian Medical Service (died in Egypt in 1918); front row, from left to right: Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Dudley Stevens Graham, Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Harry Walter Tobin, Subadar Major Hasan Khan, Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Arthur Henry Dopping Creagh MVO, Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Francis Hughes Farebrother, Captain (later Colonel) Napier George Barras Goodfellow, Major Ronald Edward Elliott Kriekenbeek (killed in Mesopotamia in 1916).

Captain (later Major General) Neil Charles Bannatyne and Lieutenant Edward Birkbeck (killed at Gallipoli in 1915) are mentioned as absent from the photograph.

The 128th Pioneers were formerly the 28th Bombay Native Infantry, raised in 1846. In 1888 the 28th Bombay Infantry became the 28th (Pioneer) Regiment of Bombay Infantry. In 1901 the unit became the 28th Bombay Pioneers. They were renumbered the 128th Pioneers as part of the reform of the Indian Army in 1903.

The regiment fought in the 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880) and in the 1st Sudan War in 1885. In 1897 it took part in the Tirah campaign on the North West Frontier of India. During World War One (1914-1918) the regiment served in Egypt. In 1922 the regiment formed the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Bombay Pioneers and in 1932 it was disbanded.

From an album of photographs relating to the 128th Pioneers, 28th Bombay Pioneers, and 3rd Battalion 2nd Bombay Pioneers, 1870-1928.