A British camp at Haidri Kach, 1920 circa (b/w photo)

A British camp at Haidri Kach, 1920 circa. Photograph by Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973), North West Frontier, 1920 circa. This distant view of a British camp in Waziristan probably depicts part of Major-General Sir Andrew Skeen’s Derajat Column. Skeen’s advance into the Mahsud heartland was fiercely resisted and the 12 week long campaign cost him 600 men killed and nearly 1700 wounded. From an album of 42 photographs from the series ‘With the Derajat Column in Waziristan’, 1919-1920. The photographs were collected by Colonel G H Russell of the South Waziristan Scouts.