Soldiers relaxing inside a frontier sangar, 1939 (c)

Photograph, India, North West Frontier, 1939 (c).

Men from 1st Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 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 on the frontier.

From an album of 168 photographs compiled by Major Wynne Howes-Roberts, 1st Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1939-1940.