Recent geopolitical upheaval has prompted IET archivists to re-examine a remarkable collection from a time of great political uncertainty, namely India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the mid to late 1940s. The collection, comprising 15 albums of photographs, was formed by Lieutenant Colonel Robert V Proudlock, who served with various military signal units in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan between 1946 and 1949. The image above, taken in the Khyber area in August 1946, shows members of the signal section of the Landi Kotal Frontier Brigade Group with their WS 22 signal equipment on a pack horse.
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