SERVICE OF SERGEANT HARRY EWIN WITH THE ROYAL ARTILLERY IN INDIA DURING THE EARLY 1930s
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Scenes with a marching column on the North West Frontier: Part of the column, comprising mainly Indian muleteers, on the move along a mountain road. Of note is the Indian photographer standing on a bank to the left of the road preparing to take a photograph.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness. Yet at the time, it was a popular and seemingly pragmatic policy.
