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1st Battalion, King's Own - India 1939-41, Hayes Collection, page two

Boy soldiers of the 1st Battalion, whilst at Hastings Barracks, Wellington, Nilgiri Hills, Southern India, September 1939.
Front row, left to right, Boys Murphy and Pearson (with pet monkey).  Back row, left to right, Boys Machin, Wassiner, Martin and John Grange.  Standing, left to right, Boys Turner, Roy Feltham, Albert Anderton and Arnold E Hayes.
Accession Number: KO2234/04


Band and Drums of the 1st Battalion, at Napier Barracks, Karachi, India, 1940.  Drum Major Williams and Bandmaster A Coventry.
Accession Number: KO2234/05


Some of the 1st Battalion whilst out training in the Sind Desert near Karachi, 1940.  'x' marks Corporal Adams.
Accession Number: KO2234/23


'Digging in' construction of defences in the Sind Desert.
Accession Number: KO2234/24


One of the civilian ambulance drivers of the 1st Battalion, Karachi, 1940.
Accession Number: KO2234/27
1st Battalion, King's Own - India 1939-41, Hayes Collection, page one
1st Battalion, King's Own - India 1939-41, Hayes Collection, page three