With the 2 DLI band in India, 1897

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Credit: Image © Durham Record Office (D/DLI 2/2/135(31))

Description

This photograph of the band of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was taken in India, at Poona (Pune), in March 1897. Jimmy would have been about 12 years old at the time and had not yet enlisted into the army. He was a boy member of the battalion band and played the clarinet.

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Notes

This photograph comes from an album specially produced while the 2nd Battalion was stationed at Poona or Pune in 1897. Every soldier serving with the battalion was photographed.

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