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Album 7 contains: scenes at the Signals School of the Royal Indian Navy at Bombay including ARN Commander attaching a message to a carrier pigeon and Indian ratings in the canteen; scenes at the British Military Hospital at Colaba including: Miss Mary Colville and the matron, Miss Macrae, in the wards with patients including William Benbe Belman of the American Field Service; scenes at a Bombay Ordnance Depot including: lines of armoured vehicles in a storage park; scenes at the Bombay races; scenes showing Commander Passmore-Edwardes reviewing officers under training at Sunday morning inspection at the shore training ship, HMS FEROZE, Bombay; views of Bombay Harbour; portraits of Sir John Colville, Governor of Bombay and Lady Colville at Government House; scenes showing Wrens going up the steps to their quarters in Bombay; scenes at a tea party at Government House including Sir John Colville greeting the guests; scenes in the commercial centre of Bombay; portraits of Sir John Colville working at his desk with his private secretary, Mr David Symington; scenes in the bazaar quarter of Peshawar including: a fruiterer surrounded by his wares and jewelers at work; portraits of Miss Mary Colville at the State Bungalow; aerial views of the North West Frontier; scenes at an IAF Flying Training School at Kohat in the North West Frontier Province including: Squadron Leader Brereton talking to Indian pilots; scenes showing a patrol of Tochi Scouts policing the mountains of the North West Frontier; scenes at an RAF Training Station at Peshawar including: pilots in training and Indian trainees during a lecture; scenes showing Gurkha Paratroopers in training at a training centre in the North West Frontier Province including: Gurkhas watching the descent of their fellow trainees and having refreshments after their jump; scenes showing Indian pilots training for the IAF including: Wing Commander Mukerjee talking to Indian pilots; scenes showing frontier troops at an outpost near Landi Kotal on the Khyber Pass including: troops of the 2nd Kashmir Infantry during training exercises at Shagai Fort, the guard at Shagai Fort being inspected, British officers outside the Ali Masjid Fort, views of the Khyber Pass; scenes showing Major General Gordon Grimsdale prior to a trip to England including: Grimsdale inspecting Chinese soldiers, views of his truck being ferried across a river near Pihu in the Fukien Province and directly after the truck crashed on the road to Pihu, showing the damage and members of the party receiving First Aid; scenes in the Fukien Province including: Chinese labourers planting rice in flooded paddy fields; portraits of the Chinese General Tson Chu-hua, Governor of Kirin; portraits of Mr Chow-Chung-yuch, Chinese scholar from the Yunnan Province and formerly Minister of the Interior; portraits of Madame Sun Yat Sen; scenes at the Royal Indian Naval station at Sutlej, Calcutta including: Indian ratings playing volleyball, performing on the parallel bars and playing instruments in the music room; a scene at the British Other Rank Leave Club in Simla showing Indian gardeners in the grounds of the camp.