Men from HMS Despatch, by a street barricade, Shanghai

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: AL-s10. This photograph was taken during the Kiangsu-Chekiang War (North Station).  Several of the Royal Navy men have a band on their pith helmets: H.M.S. DESPATCH. The man on the far left is in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps.  See JC-s137.