The album was donated by Patricia Mitchell and created by her Great Grandfather, Lt Colonel George William Beresford. Patricia says: “His father was a popular English banker in Delhi. However, his parents and his six sisters were massacred in the Indian Mutiny at Delhi in 1857. R. E. Forrester wrote what we now call a fictionalised account of the Mutiny based on the Beresford family's life, times and death in Delhi called "Eight Days: a Tale of the Indian Mutiny". It is still in print. Everything the family owned was either looted or burnt and the bank where I believed they lived "above the shop" was destroyed. The Delhi Bank features in the lithograph between pages 53 and 56 of Losty's Delhi 360 (Mazhar Ali Khan's View from the Lahore Bridge), published by Roli Books, and is described in item 90 on page 86 of the same book. There are many images to be found on Google of the bank before and after its destruction. My great- grandfather and his brother, Charles Edward, survived because they were at school in England at Haileybury and Imperial Service College. George returned to India as soon as he could at age 17 years, having enlisted in the Indian Army. He spent all his working life in the army there, raising four children. He retired to Tooting and died in 1919. I guess he was a clubbable man and enjoyed the close companionship that army life offered in India and as a meticulous person must have suggested to all those officers that they supply him with a studio photograph of each of his friends and acquaintances. Having met up with Xandra and realised her links with India through your Society, I suggested it would be a good idea to make these photographs available online. I suspect that many of the descendants of these officers do not even know these photographs exist. I am thrilled to know that these photos can be seen by many people and I and my family look forward to seeing them as they have been restored by your Society. PS: My grandfather chose to join the merchant navy, rather than the army, and lived and worked in Cherbourg, France for the first 3 decades of the 20th century until his tragic death in 1928".