Piquet in the Khyber Pass, 1919

Photograph, India, North West Frontier, 1919.

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 61st King George's Own Pioneers, man a picquet on the North West Frontier. They sit in a sangar, a temporary fortified position with a breastwork made of stone. Such positions were used to guard the heights along strategically vital roads and passes.

From album of 96 photographs compiled by Lieutenant Frank Allen Hanson, 2nd Battalion 61st King George's Own Pioneers.