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A member of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) assists an amputee at the Kirkee artificial limb centre, 1945

Photograph, World War Two, India, 1945.

The Artificial Limb Centre was established at Pune in May 1944, but moved to Kirkee in 1945 and then to Lahore in December 1946. The staff at the centre tried to meet the prosthetic needs of disabled Indian Army troops. After Indian Partition in 1947, the centre was re-established at Pune.

One of 233 official photographs collected by Captain Roy Wiltshire in his capacity as Editor of the Indian Army Review, Far East, 1943 (c)-1946.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1990-08-65-203

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study Collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1990-08-65-203