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Holmes, Randolph Bezzant (1888-1973)

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Name
Holmes, Randolph Bezzant (1888-1973)
Nationality
British
Biography
Owner of the R. B. Holmes & Co. photography studio in Peshawar, Pakistan. Commercial photographer who took over the business established by his father, William D. Homes, around 1899 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Holmes was an official photographer of the Afghan Wars on the North West Frontier in Afghanistan. He also spent time in Kashmir and in other Asian locales. Later in life he also painted watercolor landscapes from the same areas. In 1929 he published a memoir of his time in Afghanistan, Story of the North West Frontier Province, Peshawar, containing gelatin print plates of his landscapes.
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Assets (64 in total)

Arrival of the Afghan peace delegates at Dakka, 24 July 1919 (b/w photo)
Jemadar Gobind Singh, VC, 28th Light Cavalry, 1920 circa (b/w photo)
Looking through the Tanai Gorge towards Landi Khana, 1919 (b/w photo)
Dakka camp on the Kabul River, 1919 circa (b/w photo)
Dakka Camp, Kabul river, 1919 (b/w photo)
End of British territory showing Afghanistan, 1919 (b/w photo)
A frontier tribesmen, 1919 circa (b/w photo)
Captain Charles Mosse, 120th Rajputana Infantry, Waziristan, 1920 (b/w photo)
Sarwekai, 1920 circa (b/w photo)
Waziri Tower, 1919 circa (b/w photo)
‘Between Rogha Kot and Wana, Waziristan, 1920 circa (b/w photo)
An Afridi tribesman from the Khyber, 1920 circa (b/w photo)
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