My India Scrapbook 1947 Part 1. This is the republication of an article on the British Indian Army that was due to be partitioned in 1947, with the end of the British colonial occupation of India. Destiny had it that the army would be partitioned on grounds of faith and ethnicity, and within a short while, regiments that fought shoulder to shoulder would turn the guns against one another.

1. 1947 – Future of the Indian Army
My India Scrapbook - sourced from original
issues of the Illustrated London News
(Compiled in 2015 - past copyright period)
A compilation of
photographs and
news reports from
the June 7, 1947
issue of The
Illustrated London
News.

26. Cyril Bentham Falls CBE (March 2, 1888 – April 23, 1971) .
Falls was a military historian noted for his work on the First World War. He was born in Dublin and died
in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
Falls served in the First World War for the 36th (Ulster) Division and 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division.
He received the French Croix de Guerre.
After the war, he helped write several volumes of the British official History of the Great War. Later he
wrote both detailed specialist histories as well as histories intended for the average reader.
He was the Chichele Professor of Military History at All Souls, Oxford University from 1946 to 1953.

27. The End.
My India Scrapbook – 1947 Part 1