Reel 26: "Pipe band and sports" Indian turbaned troops parade and play pipes. Colonel Hamlin (?, tall bald officer) attends regimental sports day.

Reel 27: "Moplah acrobatics" (ie South India) Muslim men in distinctive white dress perform acrobatics.

Reel 28: "Mountnessing" Village in Essex (where Captain Reed's father was schoolmaster for forty years).

Reel 29: "Cutting Grass" Auntie Elda and Uncle Fred cutting grass at Southolt Hall, Suffolk.

Reel 30: "Thresher at Jordan's" Threshing labourers at work at Jordan's Farm, Essex.

Reel 31: "Seaside" Family scenes in England. Women play quoits on deck (returning to India?).

Reel 32: "D. Column" Indian soldiers with mules at trot.

Reel 33: "No Golo" Comet at night ?

Reel 34: "Pushkar" Regimental sports day, with greasy pole competition and camel racing.

Amateur film without titles shot by Captain Ronald Reed of 2nd Battalion 4th Bombay Grenadiers (King Edward's Own) of Indian Army records military and off-duty scenes of an Indian Army regiment at the start of Gandhi's campaign of civil disobedience.

Notes

Summary: Titles are as transcribed from original 9.5mm cassettes before films were extracted and compiled onto larger reel for screening.

Technical: original 9.5mm transferred at IWM onto Hi-8 tape for access, May 1997.