2/6th Gurkha Rifles
Officers of the 2/6th Gurkha Rifles take time out from the Mesopotamia (Iraq) Campaign to dig for artefacts. The item they dug up in this picture was believed to be the lintel of a doorpost from the Temple of Diana. It now serves as a doorstop at the former barracks of the Regiment in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Circa World War I.
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