Photo Album of A British Regiment in Waziristan ( 1936-39 )

Azoza & Sons, Ragani Camp, India. 1936. Small oblong photo album ( 20cm x 13cm ). 

Containing 50 mounted photographs all 5 x 3.5 inches and in excellent condition. Most portray a British Regiment ( possibly 1st Northants Reg ) at a railway station, camp and on line of march. One caption says Multan in the Punjab.

The album itself is in very good condition. In red on the pastedown is Azoza & Sons, Ragani Camp.

A scarce snapshot of a Regiment serving in the North West Frontier.

The Waziristan campaign 1936–1939 comprised a number of operations conducted in Waziristan by the British Indian Army against the fiercely independent tribesmen that inhabited this region. These operations were conducted in 1936–1939, when operations were undertaken against followers of the Pashtun nationalist Mirzali Khan, also known by the British as the "Faqir of Ipi", a religious and political agitator who was spreading anti-British sentiment in the region and undermining the prestige of the Indian government in Waziristan at the time. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan_campaign_(1936%E2%80%931939)