Sergeant R. Robson

A photograph of the Sergeants’ Mess of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at Poona, India, taken 23 April 1896.

Sergeant Robson is sitting on the extreme right of the picture, with a moustache and cap. Sergeant Whan, whom Jimmy refers to in a letter to Robson’s daughter, Stella, in 1908, is seated in the second row, above the ’23’ of 23/04/ 96.