Collection: British Empire & Commonwealth

Archive Collection: Winthrop

Reference Code: 2001/243/1/1/6

Title: Gurkha Parade album

Date: [1940s]

Description: The photographs in this album show Brigadier Winthrop inspecting a parade of Gurkhas from the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles. He is seen walking up and down the ranks with other officers and pinning a medal to one of the soldiers, who also features in a portrait shot. There are three small photographs of unidentified subjects tucked into the album; these are not connected with the parade.

Country: India

Extent and Medium: 1 volume

Level of Description: File

Physical and Technical: 1 hard backed photograph album with 48 pages; 9 b/w photographs are glued in one to a page and there are three small loose photographs tucked into the pages at the back.

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