Title

The Battalion Hockey Team of the First Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, I Artist: Unknown

Caption

The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later. The 1st Battalion was one of the first units to be moved to France at the outbreak of World War I, where it became part of the 13th Infantry Brigade in the 5th Infantry Division. Among its first major engagements was the Battle of Mons on 23 August. At the end of the war, the 1st Battalion was transferred back to India, where it took part in the Third Afghan War and the putting down of a Mahsud tribal rebellion in the Northwest Frontier in 1920. It spent the next years in India, returning home to Britain in 1937. From A Pictorial Souvenir and History of the First Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Published by The British Historical and Art Publishing Company, 1926.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1926

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C62_130

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

20,7Mb (1,2Mb) / 11,2in x 7,2in / 3347 x 2160 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior portrait people male group sport job man men team day guy occupation war hockey century profession sepia sportsman first world war concept outside twenties B&W full length MONOCHROME Army warfare Regiment World War I WWI 1st Battalion black & white black and white B W 1920s publisher World War One 20th century The Print Collector 1st World War battalion WW1 photograph portrait Unknown British Historical and Art First Battalion Queens own Royal West Kent photograph portrait