Defensive position of 'C' Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Jat Regiment, in Waziristan, 1923

Photograph, India, North West Frontier, 1923.

This Indian soldier is armed with a Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rifle and a Lewis machine-gun. These were the main infantry weapons for the British and Indian Armies in the First World War and most of the inter-war period.

From album of 154 photographs compiled by T M Layng, 10th Jats, India, North West Frontier, 1923-1924.