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King's Indian Orderly Officers from the Gurkha regiments, 1905

Photograph by C Vandyk, 1905.

The men depicted are (from the left) Major A P Bateman-Champain, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles; Subadar Major Karan Sing Gurung, 1st Battalion, Gurkha Rifles; Subadar Kirpa Ram Thapa, 1st Battalion, 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Gurkha Rifles; Subadar Nawal Sing Rana, 8th Gurkha Rifles; Subadar Jas Lal Rai, 2nd Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles.

From a collection of 33 photographs of the same subject 1903-1938 (mostly taken by Vandyk).

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1953-06-42-3

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study Collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1953-06-42-3

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