Image: 45th Sikh Regiment escorting prisoners - 2nd afghan war

Description: Photo of 45th Rattray's Sikhs with prisoners from the second Second Anglo-Afghan War From Source: The three Afghan prisoners captured in the advance through the Khurd Khyber are sitting in the centre of the photograph, surrounded by Sikh guards. The 45th Sikh Regiment was raised in 1856 by Captain Thomas Rattray, and was popularly known as Rattray’s Sikhs. It had earlier earned glory with its courage and loyalty to the British at the relief of Lucknow during the Indian Uprising of 1857. The Regiment served in the Fourth Infantry Brigade, part of the Peshawar Valley Field Force, during the Second Afghan War. The prisoners were lucky to have survived because in the harsh conditions and terrain of the Afghan Wars no quarter was given and prisoners taken, on both sides.
Title: 45th Sikh Regiment escorting prisoners - 2nd afghan war
Credit: http://lakhvir.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/afghan-war.jpg?w=477
Author: John Burke
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