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Bed Pick Wallah

Accession Number NWHRM : 3980.3.119

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Photographic print (b/w); titled 'Bed Pick Wallah'; this a a portrait of one of the many servants who worked in the barracks and officers quarters in India.

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A Wallah is a person who is associated with a particular work or who performs a specific duty or service —usually used in combination with that job. It is not clear what 'bed picking' was, it could well be the beating and airing of the matresses.

Department Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum

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