Photo 18/8

Black, post-bound album, measuring 270 x 375 mm, containing 10 mounted gelatin silver prints with handwritten captions. The album is untitled but the front cover has the metal crest of the Frontier Force Regiment. A label on the inside front cover reads: 'Presented to the India Office Library by General Sir Geoffrey Scoones'. A typed dedication on the same page reads: 'To His Excellency General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, GCIE, CB, CSI, DSC, OBE, ADC, Commander-in-Chief in India. From Colonel J. E. Redding and the Officers of The Frontier Force Regiment. Sialkot, March, 1945'.

The following photographs are included: Print 1 [Group portrait of] 'Boys'. The Frontier Force Regts. [From left] 5th Royal Ghurkha Rifles, 13th F.F. Rifles, The Guides Infantry, 13th F.F. Rifles, 3rd Royal Bn.12 F.F.R., 13th F.F. Rifles, 5th Royal Ghurkha Rifles. Print 2 [Portrait of two] 'Boys'. The Guides Infantry F.F. [and] 3rd Royal Bn. F.F. Print 3 [Portrait of two] 'Boys'. The Guides Infantry F.F. [and] The Guides Cavalry F.F. Print 4 [Portrait of two] 'Boys'. 5th Royal Ghurkha Rifles. Print 5 [Group portrait of] Officers of the Regimental Training Centre [with Auchinleck]. Print 6 [The regimental Roll of Honour and Book of Remembrance.] Print 7 [Memorial to casualties and list of Battle Honours.] Print 8 [Interior of] The Regimental Room [with medals, commemorative plaques and old regimental drums]. Print 9 [Interior of the] Japanese Room [with propaganda posters, captured arms and equipment and dummies in Japanese uniforms]. Print 10 [Group portrait of] NCO's of the Regimental Training Centre.