Photo 18/3

Black, post-bound album, measuring 260 x 390 mm, containing prints mounted with corner hinges, mostly three or four to a page and interleaved with tissue. Many of the hinges are torn or missing resulting in loose or poorly mounted prints. The photographs are nearly all uncaptioned. A label on the inside front cover reads: 'Presented to the India Office Library by General Sir Geoffrey Scoones'. The album records the career of the Commander-in-Chief of India, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, during the Second World War.

The following subjects are covered in the album: Prints 4-11 Mountain Battery on a cross-country treck with mules; Prints 17-39 Inspections of Army and Navy personnel, medal ceremonies, fire-fighting display and mechanics at work; Prints 40-62 Visit to a hospital, tour of an air-field and other unknown locations; Prints 63-85 Presenting medals, inspecting troops, meeting the Maharajas of Jaipur and Jodhpur and the Nawab of Bhopal; Prints 88-99 United States Army personnel training South-East Asian (?) troops; Prints 100-107 Visiting the training camp of an African Division; Prints 108-116 Presenting new colours to an Indian Army regiment; Prints 118-120 Inspecting nursing staff and a unit of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India); Prints 130-149 Gurkha training camp; Prints 150-155 Social life including tennis and a ballroom dance; Prints 156-172 Parade for the presentation of medals at the Red Fort, Delhi, with the Viceroy, Lord Wavell and Mountbatten (?); Prints 173-183 Visiting U.S. Army base; Prints 184-217 Visit to Naval base including cinema, hospital, inspecting Indian Navy personnel and auxiliaries, touring workshops and munitions depots, dry docks, aircraft hangers and defences; Prints 218-269 Visiting Frontier units [Eastern and North-Western?] including training in jungle warfare, artillery positions, encampments, parades, hand-to-hand combat, camel corps, stables, kitchens and recreation rooms; Prints 270-345 Miscellaneous views from throughout India of visits to training camps to observe exercises including the Mountain Battery Training Centre at Ambala, meeting officers, inspecting and meeting troops and auxiliaries, attending a luncheon in the company of Indian dignitaries, on a river launch, presenting new colours to a boys company in Ajmer, group portrait with officers of the Bombay Grenadiers based at the Nasirabad cantonment.