Personal Collections / Lt Col Ron O'Brien, Indian Army | Families in British India Society Image Gallery

A collection of photographs and images of British India

By using this site, you agree we can set and use cookies. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy.


	FIBIS Websites FIBIS Gallery home FIBIS main website FIBIS database Fibiwiki FIBIS shop


	Albums People [280] Studio Portraits [52] Missionaries [8] Graves, Monuments and Memorials [30] Cemeteries [13] Monuments and Memorials [17] Buildings [342] Military Buildings [46] Schools [10] Civil buildings [13] Churches [271] Ephemera [132] Phyllis Lawrence Heron Collection [49] Madras Tattoo December 1945 [48] Military documents [13] The Indian Highway Code [16] Military [126] Royal Air Force [2] East India Company Army [1] Indian Army [36] British Army [87] Personal Collections [2981] Percy Burns Collection [7] Everett family collection [7] Ludwell Collection [58] Charles Streatfeild James Album [55] ProctorGuzerat [328] Guzerat Railway [55] Tony & Anne Shaw Personal Collection [49] Heron Family Collection [12] Cronan Family Collection [16] Samuel Francis Lewis Family Collection [45] Lt Col Ron O'Brien, Indian Army [141] Charles Giles Collection [178] Corporal H Jackson Collection [36] Shirley Cotton Collection [27] Mary Shockley Collection [16] Emmy Eustace Collection [832] Ephemera [42] Coode Family Collection [27] Album 6 [10] Metcalfe and Makin family pictures [72] Paul Nicholson Collection [38] Beverly Hallam Collection [24] Andrew Rippin Collection [12] David Cornelius Collection [17] Richard Skinner Collection [9] Sidney Malins Collection [48] Calcutta Exhibition Programme [20] Eric Lomax Collection [175] Hilary Williams Collection [16] Alfred Cecil Gregory Collection [181] Neville Thomas collection [15] Rogers-Bray Collection [11] Rev. Fr. Maria Antoine Tabard [28] Dr Dorothy Cartner Collection [230] Valmay Young Collection [77] Postcards [46] John Morgan Collection [194] Railways [218] Guzerat Railway [55] NWR [107] 3524 photos


	Menu Tags (1262) Search Comments (19) Notification World map


	Related tags Baluch Regiment buildings Chaklala Indian Army Karachi Military Mohmand Multan O'BRIEN Pakistan people transport


	Specials Most visited Best rated Random photos Recent photos Recent albums Calendar


	Copyright of gallery images © Families in British India Society. Unless stated otherwise, all rights including those in copyright in the content of this website are owned by or controlled for these purposes by the Families in British India Society. The content of this site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any way without first obtaining written permission from the Families in British India Society or that of the copyright owner.


	Sort order Sort order ✔ Default ✔ Photo title, A → Z ✔ Photo title, Z → A ✔ Date created, new → old ✔ Date created, old → new ✔ Date posted, new → old ✔ Date posted, old → new ✔ Rating score, high → low ✔ Rating score, low → high ✔ Visits, high → low ✔ Visits, low → high Photo sizes Photo sizes ✔ Square ✔ Thumbnail ✔ XXS - tiny ✔ XS - extra small ✔ S - small ✔ M - medium slideshow Calendar Calendar Map Language Language Afrikaans [ZA]Afrikaans Argentina [AR]Argentina Brasil [BR]Brasil Català [CA]Català Česky [CZ]Česky Dansk [DK]Dansk Deutsch [DE]Deutsch Dhivehi [MV]Dhivehi English [UK]English Español [ES]Español Esperanto [EO]Esperanto Estonian [EE]Estonian Finnish [FI]Finnish Français [FR]Français Français [QC]Français Hrvatski [HR]Hrvatski Íslenska [IS]Íslenska Italiano [IT]Italiano Latviešu [LV]Latviešu Magyar [HU]Magyar Nederlands [NL]Nederlands Norwegian [NO]Norwegian Polski [PL]Polski Português [PT]Português Română [RO]Română Slovenšcina [SI]Slovenšcina Slovensky [SK]Slovensky Srpski [SR]Srpski Svenska [SE]Svenska Tiếng Việt [VN]Tiếng Việt Türkçe [TR]Türkçe Ελληνικά [GR]Ελληνικά Български [BG]Български Македонски [MK]Македонски Русский [RU]Русский Српски [SR]Српски Українська [UA]Українська עברית [IL]עברית العربية [AR]العربية پارسی [IR]پارسی ภาษาไทย [TH]ภาษาไทย ქართული [GE]ქართული ភាសាខ្មែរ [KH]ភាសាខ្មែរ 中文 (繁體) [TW]中文 (繁體) 中文 (香港) [HK]中文 (香港) 日本語 [JP]日本語简体中文 [CN]简体中文 한국어 [KR]한국어 Home / Personal Collections / Lt Col Ron O'Brien, Indian Army [141] Lt. Col H.J.R. O'Brien was born in Nainital, India in 1906 where his father worked as a civil engineer. Educated at Bedford Public School, he entered Sandhurst and was commissioned in 1927 as a 2nd Lt in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Seconded to the 10th Baluch regt of the Indian Army. He saw active service in the Mahmond campaigning in the early 1930's. During the second world war, he served with the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. His last nine months of his Army career were with CRIASC, HQ South Burma, Rangoon. Discharged with the rank of Lt. Col on Indian Independence he returned to Ireland in 1948. 1st Lt H J R O'Brien 1123 hits 2nd Lt H J R O'Brien 855 hits Chaklala, 1934 1334 hits Chaklala, 1934 990 hits Chaklala, 1934 1316 hits 251 IND ARMD Bdg Tpt Coy Officers 1139 hits 251 IND ARMD Bdg Tpt Coy Officers 1160 hits Buttons & Co 720 hits Baluch Regt Crest Multan 1928 1198 hits Bungalow 831 hits Bungalow 939 hits Untitled 597 hits Garden Party 726 hits Garden Party 742 hits Fellow Officer in Baluch Reg Peshawar 1412 hits Garden Party 699 hits Garden Party 733 hits Hastings Allahabad 692 hits Untitles 1020 hits Karachi Boat Club 894 hits 15 August 1947 1233 hits Karachi Parade 604 hits Karachi Parade 574 hits Karachi Parade 642 hits Parade, Karachi 1425 hits Parade, Karachi 860 hits Parade, Karachi 748 hits Parade, Karachi 738 hits Parade, Karachi 807 hits Lewis gun section on the range 651 hits Lewis gun section on the range 599 hits Lieut. H.J.R. O'Brien, Multan 1928 1009 hits Lt. Col H.J.R O'Brien 813 hits Mahmond supply dump 773 hits Mahmond 738 hits Mahmond 672 hits Mahmond 746 hits Jacob's Rifles 776 hits South Waziristan Scouts 642 hits Major O'Brien 700 hits Mahmond 658 hits Mahmond 783 hits Mahmond 751 hits Mohd Din Stableward Bearer 761 hits Multan Officers Club 738 hits The Baluch Mess August 1929 1085 hits Multan Officers Club 726 hits Parade, Karachi 1547 hits Untitled 642 hits Untitled 669 hits First \| Previous \| 1 2 3 \| Next \| Last

Powered by Piwigo Copyright Families in British India Society 2013-2015 var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-3922205-7']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();