Divided back

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from India were recruited to fight with the Allied armies in Europe, Africa and Mesopotamia during World War I, and most passed through Bombay on their way to the front.

This hospital was built in the memory of Parsi trader Eduljee Dinshaw. Parsis started major property, shipping, hotel and beverage businesses in Karachi since the late 19th century.

There are hundreds of thousands of European graves across the subcontinent, and perhaps thousands of such cemeteries, many attached to churches, and more or less abandoned by the British when they left, and now kept up by locals and private

A rather impressive portrait, from a slightly low angle, giving the boy a certain grandeur. Unfortunately, a most rarely postcarded occupation.