Soldiers from the Sikh regiment stand outside an RAF Vickers Vernon during the February 1923 airlift of troops from Kingarban to Kirkuk to assist with the Kurdish uprising, the RAF's first movement of troops by air.

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Sikh Regiment during the RAF's first airlift of troops

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Photo credit: © Bristol Archives/UIG / Alamy / Afripics
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