John Burke
1878
English Soldiers in Afganistan

Albumen print, from wet plate negative
10 1/16 x 6 3/8 in.
 
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2022.784
 
(Alan Griffiths, 29 August 2025) There is a copy of this print in The Royal Collection (RCIN 2501356) with the title "General Sir Samuel Browne and staff, Pesahawar Valley Field Force" (1878-1879)
 
Photograph of a group portrait of the Peshawar Valley Field Force.
Back row (left to right): (unidentified); (unidentified); Major John Slade; (unidentified); (unidentified) and Brigadier General John Doran.
Front row, left to right are: Lieutenant Gilbert Hamilton; (unidentified); Colonel Charles Macgregor; Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Browne (1824-1901) VC, Commander of the Peshawar Valley Field Force; Brigadier-General Frederick Ernest Appleyard (1829-1911); Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Macpherson (1827-86) VC; Brigadier-General Charles Gough VC and Brigadier-General John Adams Tytler (1825-80) and (unidentified). There is a wooden structure with a straw roof standing on the left and a camp in the background.
 
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