Officer's mess, 10th Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment, 1937 (c)

Photograph, India, 1937 (c).

The social institution to which all officers belonged was the regimental mess. The mess had its own property, rules and customs; it was the tangible focus for the loyalties and esprit de corps of the officers. Unmarried officers took most of their meals in the mess, married officers dined there less frequently.

From an album of 91 photographs, 1936-1939 relating to 10th Bn, 1st Punjab Regiment, India, North West Frontier.