Camp Dakka In The Late Afghan War 1919
The Third Afghan War between May and August 1919 followed the end of World War I.
The Third Afghan War between May and August 1919 followed the end of World War I.
Camp Ali Musjid is atop the hill on the left, a key base for the Second Afghan War in 1878-79 between the Raj and Afghanistan; this postcard shows the British encampments on the same border with Afghanistan forty years later in the Third Afghan War.
A striking portrait of individuals, young and old, who served in the British Indian army that fought in France during World War I. This card is postmarked 1915, and was used to "offer a handshake to a friend."
Although the word "concentration camp," has since been primarily associated with Nazi concentration camps during World War II (1939-1945), the word was in use earlier in wider contexts as a place where many people were concentrated in one location,