India: Sindh (now part of Pakistan): Sukkur. 18 items. (1) Cover sheet, bearing a...

India: Sindh (now part of Pakistan): Sukkur. 18 items. (1) Cover sheet, bearing a list of the drawings that are items (2-18); amended in pencil. Marked '... Press No.12. Tray No.7 ...'. (2-18) 17 sheets of plans, elevations and sections of defences. (2) General plan. (3) Plan and 4 sections of the right Ghoosa redoubt. (4-5) Left Ghoosa redoubt: (4) plan; (5) 4 sections of the redoubt and 1 section of a passageway. (6-7) Right field battery: (6) plan; (7) 10 sections. (8-9) Left field battery: (8) plan; (9) 5 sections. (10-11) Central redoubt, right wing: (10) plan; (11) Seven sections of the redoubt and two sections of passageways. (12) Plan and four sections of the left central redoubt, and a plan, elevation and section of the guard house. (13) Plan and 11 sections of Adamshah battery, and a plan and two sections of its drawbridge. (14-15) Left river redoubt: (14) plan; (15) 2 sections of the reboubt and one section of a passageway. (16-17) King's battery: (16) general plan; (17) plan, elevation and section of a gun emplacement, and plan and two sections of a magazine. (18) Plan and four sections of a railway workshop yard, with three sections through a redoubt parapet, and a detailed corner plan and seven sections of bollards. Reference tables lands and armaments on item 2. Scale: (2) 1 inch to 300 yards [1:10,800]; (3 [plan], 4, 10, 14) 1 inch to 50 feet [1:600]; (3 [sections], 5 [redoubt], 8, 11 [redoubt], 12 [plan], 13 [sections], 15 [redoubt]) 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]; (5 [passageway], 12 [guardhouse], 13 [drawbridge]) 1 inch to 5 feet [1:60]; (6, 13 [plan], 16) 1 inch to 30 feet [1:360]; (7, 9, 18 [sections]) 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]; (11 [passageways]) 1:8; (12 [sections]) 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]; (15 [passageway] 2 inches to 5 feet [1:30]; (17, 18 [details]) 1 inch to 4 feet [1:48]; (18 [plan]) 1 inch to 10 feet. Compass indicators to items (2-4, 6, 8, 10, 12-14, 16, 18). Traced from original maps signed by (2) Captain W R Hilliard, Royal Engineers, on behalf of the Directior General of Military Works, and Major A L Mein, Royal Engineers, Executive Engineer, Karachi Division, Military Works; (3-17) Captain P E Dixon, Royal Engineers, Executive Engineer, Karachi Division, Military Works; (18) Captain E A Edgell, Royal Engineers, Executive Engineer, Karachi Division, Military Works. Traced by (3) Ukrum Ali; (4) Patap Singh, (5, 16) Bunday Ally; (6-7, 9, 14-15) Shumsher Khan; (8) Mahomed Ibrahim; (12, 17) Najaf Ali; (13) Hera Lath; (18) [illegible]; the tracers of items (2, 10-11) are not specified. Certified as true copies by Captain G M Duff, Royal Engineers, 24 June 1897.

Several of the sheets have been numbered differently two or more times; the item numbers used here are those found on the dorse of each sheet in the form 'WO 78/4871 [item number]'.

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