‘XIX 1st Battn 1868’.
Photograph, India, 1868.
Group portrait of the 1st Battalion, 19th (1st Yorkshire North Riding) (Princess of Wales’s Own) Regiment of Foot, at the time of the Black Mountain Expedition, 1868. Charles Archibald Mercer (1847-1923) is noted as being seated in the foreground to the right of the group.
From an album of photographs compiled by Colonel C A Mercer, 19th Regiment and 4th Regiment of Gurkha Infantry, India, 1868-1878.