South Waziristan Scouts Mounted Infantry, 1944

Photograph, North West Frontier, India, World War Two (1939-1945), 1944.

A South Waziristan Scouts mounted infantryman leads a string of horses during a visit of Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck to the North West Frontier, November 1944.

The South Waziristan Scouts, formerly the South Waziristan Militia, was a paramilitary unit which formed part of British India's Frontier Corps. Other units included the Chitral Scouts, the Gilgit Scouts and the Kurram and Zhob Militias.

From a collection of 233 official photographs collected by Captain Roy Wiltshire in his capacity as Editor of the Indian Army Review.