NAM.1975-01-40-1

‘17th Lancers. Lucknow Novr 1885’. Photograph, 1885. Portrait group of officers, 17th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers, Lucknow, India. Portrait group of named officers. Rear row (from left to right): Captain Herbert C Jenkins, Lt James H Dyer, Lt William G Renton, Lt Bertram P Portal, Colonel Samuel Boulderson, Captain John M Russell, Captain Henry McGee, Lt Charles J Anstruther-Thomson and Captain Frederick W Benson; seated, middle row (from left to right): Major the Honourable John Pleydell-Bouverie, Lt George F Milner, Captain Mortimer G Neeld, Lt Colonel Thomas A Cooke, Captain Douglas Shawe and Major Starling M Benson; front row (left to right): the Honourable (later Gen Sir) Herbert A Lawrence, Lt Charles Coventry, Captain Thomas A Steele and Lt Charles A S Warner. From an album of 72 photographs collected by Major (later Brigadier General Sir) Bertram Percy Portal (1885-1949), 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers, 1885-1907.

Boer War (1899-1902)