‘Group Engineer Officers’, Kandahar, 1880 circa (b/w photo)

‘Group Engineer Officers’, Kandahar, 1880 circa. Photograph by Benjamin Simpson (1831-1923), 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880), 1880 circa. They are (left to right): Lieutenant F B G D’Aguilar; Lieutenant F B Longe; Lieutenant E A Walker; Captain W H Haydon; Major E N Peters; Captain W W B Whiteford; Lieutenant-Colonel J Hills; Lieutenant M J Slater; Colonel O B C St John; Lieutenant J R E Neville; Lieutenant S A E Hickson; Dr J B Eaton; Lieutenant W Coles; Lieutanant C L Young. During the Afghan War the many tasks of the Royal Engineers, Bengal Sappers and Miners, Bombay Sappers and Miners and Madras Sappers and Miners included road-making, building posts on the line of communication, bridge building across rivers, camp and fort construction, laying telegraph lines and surveying. From an album of 34 photographs.