100 yards race at Bauchi, Nigeria, 1901 (c)

Photograph, West Africa, 1901 (c).

Sport was a major pastime in British colonial army units. Here a group of soldiers from the Northern Nigeria Regiment compete in a 100-yard sprint in Bauchi. The regiment was formed as part of the West African Frontier Force in 1900 after Nigeria had become a British protectorate.

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