Corps of Guides


Infantry on Parade, 1897


The men are all dressed in the drab coloured tunic with red collar and cuffs. The different styles of turban are grouped together in companies except for one company that is mixed. Two Sikh companies, one Dogra, one Gurkha, two Pathan and one Punjabi Musalman made up the others.


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