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W.G. Skinner |
Regimental Team 3rd. Battalion Rifle Brigade |
Church Tower - Alpore |
Hindu Goddess |
P&O Steam Ship - Malta |
Turks hung - 2nd. Batt Rifle Brigade on guard |
Photographs of the British Army in India 100 years ago
Collected by W.G. Skinner of the Rifle Brigade
Rifleman, later Acting Sergeant W.G. Skinner of the Rifle Brigade served in India from 1895 to 1904. During this time he collected a number of photographs which he kept in an album. These are reproduced on this website. Unfortunately some of them have faded very badly.
He also had a series of picture postcards of India, click here to view them.
Copies of the photographs can be used by individuals for research and academic purposes, and non-commercial purposes. For any other purpose - including the use of the images for commercial publication - please contact Sepia International Inc. who are the owners of the original photographs. Click here to go to their website.
Click on any small photograph to see a larger version
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W.G. Skinner |
Regimental Team 3rd. Battalion Rifle Brigade |
Church Tower - Alpore |
Hindu Goddess |
P&O Steam Ship - Malta |
Turks hung - 2nd. Batt Rifle Brigade on guard |
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Mixed group theatricals - Rawal Pindi 1900 |
Old Public Hall - Agra Fort, part of Palace |
Mixed Group Station ??? 1898 |
View of Agra from Fort showing Jami Masjid and City |
Mounted Infantry, Rifle Brigade, Rawalpindi. Showing R. Artillery Barracks |
Praying at the news of the Queen's death |
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View of the Grand Trunk Road outside Lahore |
Polo cup wone by Rifle Brigade team, Meerut 1900 |
"G" Company Solan Summer 1898 |
Group of NCOs Rifle Brigade Solan and Sporting Shield |
Gymnasiums "G" Company Kuldana 1896 |
3rd. Rifle Brigade Buglers Kuldana 1896 |
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Title lost - Group of people under a canopy |
Title lost - probably "E" Company |
Safter Jung's Tomb, Delhi |
Waterfall Chakrata and men from Hailana |
No. 3 Section "E" Company taken inside Palace Delhi Fort |
Quub Minar Delhi |
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Sergeants' Group, Hailana 1902 |
Taj Mahal from River Jumna, Agra |
Taj Mahal, Agra |
Jami Masjid, Delhi |
"E" Company Officers and NCOs, Meerut 1902 |
3rd. Battalion Rifle Brigade, Meerut, October 1902 |
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Quwwat-ul-Islam and Iron Pillar, part of Delhi (Old City) |
Gymnasium Group "G" Company |
Officers' Mess and Married Quarters, Huldana |
Race Course Rawalpindi with West Ridge in background |
Duke of Connaught arriving at Meerut Station |
Barracks at Kuldana with Changla Guli in distance |
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Palace inside Agra Fort and bridge over Jumna for rail and road traffic |
No. 4 Section "G" Company Kuldana 1899 |
View of Murree from the Telegraph Office Murree Hills |
"E" Company 3rd. Battalion Rifle Brigade Meerut 1902 |
Rawal Pindi Park |
Chinese curios, Chinese expedition 1900-01 |
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Inside Taj Mahal, Delhi, showing graves of King and Queen |
King Shah Jeham |
Queen Taj Mahal Begum |
Native levies from Baluchistan riding in the Delhi Durbah procession 1902 |
Kailana looking from the guard room |
3rd. Rifle Brigade marching past Delhi Durbah 1902 |
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Hill station for invalid soldiers |
Signallers 3rd. Rifle Brigade Rawalpindi 1897 |
Hill station for British troops |
Consecrating burial ground Jopa Murree Hills 1899 |
Barrack Room (Summer time) India |
3rd. Batallion Rifle Brigade Camp during Delhi Durbah 1902 |
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St. James Church Delhi with brass ball showing shot holes done during the Indian mutiny |
St. Peters Church Meerut |
Brass tablet in Rawalpindi Church |
Erected in Meerut cemetary |
Erected on Grand Trunk Road |
Officers Quarters and snowy range looking from the guard room, Kailana |
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View from Kailana showing native bazaar |
Swing bridge over hill stream on the road to Chakrata |
Sketch of Solan and vicinity |
Road report Simla-Rankla 1898 |
The Rifle Brigade |
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