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Blue, post-bound album, measuring 294 x 380 mm, containing 94 mounted, uncaptioned gelatin silver prints. The album is untitled although the front cover is decorated with the RAF 'bullseye' emblem. A label on the inside front cover reads: 'Presented to the India Office Library by General Sir Geoffrey Scoones' and a handwritten dedication on the same page reads: 'To C.in.C. In [?] souvenir of Victory Week Delhi 1946. From RAF and RIAF. [Signed] C. R. Carr'. The photographs record the Victory Week celebrations in Delhi when Sir Claude Auchinleck was Commander-in-Chief of India. Photographs include: Print 1 The C-in-C in an armoured car; Prints 2-17 Parades and displays by various Indian regiments including the Camel Corps; Prints 18-20 Wavell, Mountbatten and Auchinleck taking the salute; Prints 21-39 Views of the March Past including tanks, armoured cars, heavy artillery, personnel carriers and motorbikes; Prints 40-44 Aerial views of the parade including its route past the King George Memorial; Prints 45-49 Various regiments during the parade; Prints 50-94 Views of Fly Past's by various RAF and RIAF aircraft including bombers and fighter planes, the airfield, mock-bombing and paratroop display.