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Sketches of the Burmese Military Police, 1890. Creator: Unknown.

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Sketches of the Burmese Military Police, 1890. '1. Entrance to a Police Stockade. 2. A Police Look-out Post on the Hills. 3. A Military Police Outpost. 4. A Police Patrol Launch. 5. A Military Police Hospital. 6. A Burmese Jail, guarded by Military Police...[Scenes in Upper Burmah,] the latest acquired Province of the British Indian Empire...the Military Police, [consists] not of Burmese natives but of men sent from India...One battalion has been employed to protect the railway in process of construction from Toungoo to Mandalay. Besides this...there are the Kubo Valley battalion, to protect the Upper Chindwin country, and the Chin and Shan frontier levies, for the protection of those frontiers. These battalions are all recruited from the fighting classes of Northern India - Sikhs, Pathans, Punjabis, Mahommedans, Hindustanis, Goorkhas, and Assamese...The Military Police have now taken over from the troops nearly all the outpost stations...During the year 1887 the Military Police had 126 encounters with Dacoits. in which 219 Dacoits were killed and 659 captured. The police lost nine killed and thirty-seven wounded. The whole force is commanded by its Inspector-General, Brigadier Stedman...Our Sketches are furnished by Surgeon A. E. Newland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A57_309

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49,7Mo (4,9Mo) / 31,0cm x 40,2cm / 3659 x 4749 (300dpi)

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