Online Collection
Cooking Langri of 10th Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment, 1936 (c)
Photograph, India, North West Frontier, 1936 (c).
Two cooks, or langris, were normally maintained in each company of a battalion. The composition of the company would determine if a cook was a Moslem, Sikh or Hindu and of what caste if the latter.
From an album of 91 photographs, 1936-1939 relating to 10th Bn, 1st Punjab Regiment.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1965-04-69-45
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1965-04-69-45