Photograph showing overseas and local staff of the Calcutta branch on the occasion of Percy Powles retirement. More than 200 staff are seated on a tiered stand. Powles is seated in the centre of the front row, wearing a garland of flowers. He had first joined the bank at the age of 16 in 1909.
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