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Title Gurkha Guaru Family A larger version of this photograph is available by clicking on the small size photo below.

[Gurkha Guaru Family ]
Photographer Frank Bond
Date 1944
Subject "local inhabitant, music, entertainment"
Notes "Gurkha Guaru family, near Alipore Air Base, Calcutta, 1944. Men of Ghurka family served as airbase guards. (The next 10 shots are of a Gurkha family on Christmas Day. We thought it would be good to see what some of the natives were doing (nothing)). [from a collection of prints mounted on airmail that were used to ship photos home to the U.S.; contact sheet 10]."
Location Calcutta
Original negative held no


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