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1st Bengal Lancers
(Skinner's Horse) - Returning from a Review (Detail of Standards)
In the forground is a
senior Indian officer with elaborate saddle-cloth and throat
plume. He carries a shield on his back as do nearly all
the other Indian officers. The two standard-bearers (nishanburdars)
are behind the left end of the rissalah line. The design
looks the same for all the standards, there being two for
each rissalah, but the Farsi script may be different on
each. The troops in this picture may look very different
from the idea we have of the British soldier of this time
but they still march under the union flag. At the top of
the picture, the band march on the right of the line. It
is not really a band as such, but a grouping of the 4 trumpeters
and 4 kettledrummers. The trumpet-major is on the right
of the line of trumpeters (top left, as we look at it) on
a more richly dressed horse.
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