Bearers on parade, 1910 (c)

Photograph, West Africa, 1910 (c).

Members of the Northern Nigeria Regiment parade outside a traditional hut. Four of the men balance a carrier on their heads. None of the soldiers depicted wears boots as the men did not wear shoes in their civilian lives and heavy army boots would have proved highly uncomfortable.

From a collection of 41 lantern slides, collected between 1907-1911, by Lieutenant H R S Massy, Royal Artillery, attached to the Northern Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force.