Crest Rock, Cherat, 1904 (c)

Photograph by Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973), India, 1904 (c).

Cherat, located in the Peshawar District, was a hill cantonment and sanatorium for British troops stationed in the hot and malaria-ridden Peshawar Valley. Many of the troops sent there carved and painted their regimental insignia on to nearby rock faces to mark their service on the frontier.

From an album of 116 photographs compiled by Lieutenant Hugh Stephenson Turnbull, 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force) in India and Egypt, 1903-1906.