15 albums of photographs, each with title and number, showing scenes of military life, erecting cable, local people and scenery. Volume III was not deposited with the others in the series.
At the front of each album a letter has been inserted by R V proudlock using his own headed paper which is addressed, Sicklefield House, St Michaels, Tenterden, Kent. The typescript note on each letter is the same and reads;
"Presented by Lieutenant Colonel R.V. Proudlock CEng FIEE.
Lately Commandant:
No.1 Special Communications Group Signals, Burma;
Peshawar Signal Regiment;
Kohat Signal Regiment;
Baluchistan Signal Regiment.
Chief Signal Officer of the Frontier Corps of Pakistan, and Signals Adviser to the Frontier Constabulary of Pakistan, and Signals Adviser and to the Afghan Army."
For more information about the blog and digitised images see the IET Archives blog: https://ietarchivesblog.org/2016/07/06/india-pakistan-and-afghanistan-photographs-of-the-1940s/
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15 albums
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English.
Admin. history/Biography
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Victor Proudlock served with various military signal units in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1946 to 1949. Lt Col Proudlock was primarily engaged in supervising the erection of telegraph lines and wireless masts. This period of Robert’s work covers the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan in August 1947.
Robert Proudlock was the eldest son of Robert Lewis Proudlock who had been the Arboricultural Adviser to the government of Bengal. His brothers also had strong military ties – they were Brigadier Arthur George Proudlock DSC OBE, and Brigadier John Lewis Proudlock DSO.
Robert had been an officer with the Indian Army in World War One and retired at the rank of Captain following the war in 1922. He was temporarily re-employed with the Royal Corps of Signals in World War Two before beginning his signals assignment in South Asia in 1946. The various roles held by Robert over his period of service from 1946-1949 were;
Commandant No.1 Special Communications Group Signals Burma.
Commandant Peshawar Signal Regiment
Commandant Kohat Signal Regiment
Commandant Baluchistan Signal Regiment
Chief Signal Officer of the Frontier Corps of Pakistan
Signals Adviser to the Frontier Constabulary and to the Afghan Army
