19th Bombay Infantry


Types, 1897


From the left, a naik in field service dress. a havildar in full dress, a drummer in service dress, the drum-major, a boy mascot, an officer in full dress, a havildar in drill order, a havildar in full dress, a sepoy in field service dress, a musician with a horn round his body, a young man in mufti and a bugler in service dress. The yellow kullahs appear dark because of the photographic process of that time. Note the leather patches on the white gaiters.


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