Photograph of a group portrait of the Peshawar Valley Field Force.
Back row (left to right): (unidentified); (unidentified); Major John Slade; (unidentified); (unidentified) and Brigadier General John Doran. 
Front row, left to right are: Lieutenant Gilbert Hamilton; (unidentified); Colonel Charles Macgregor; Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Browne (1824-1901) VC, Commander of the Peshawar Valley Field Force; Brigadier-General Frederick Ernest Appleyard (1829-1911); Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Macpherson (1827-86) VC; Brigadier-General Charles Gough VC and Brigadier-General John Adams Tytler (1825-80) and (unidentified). There is a wooden structure with a straw roof standing on the left and a camp in the background.

The photographer John Burke travelled with the Peshawar Valley Field Force during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), one of a series of conflicts between Britian and Russia over control of Afghanistan. His images from the war capture landscapes, key strategic sites and soldiers involved in the conflict.