NAM.1953-02-2-1

Corps present at the Siege and Assault of Delhi, 1857, 1911. Watercolour, signed and dated at lower right by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1911. The original for the illustration opposite p2 of Major G F MacMunn’s 'Armies of India', published in 1911. Associated with Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). Figures standing around statue of John Nicholson: 1st King George's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners; 21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force) Daly’s Horse; 57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force); 22nd Sam Browne’s Cavalry (Frontier Force); 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles; 55th Coke’s Rifles (Frontier Force); 2nd King Edward’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles); 9th Hodson’s Horse; 10th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Lancers (Hodson’s Horse); 32nd Sikh Pioneers; Queen’s Own Corps of Guides (Lumsden’s); 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force); 54th Sikhs (Frontier Force); 127th Queen Mary’s Own Baluch Light Infantry.

Delhi, Siege of, 1857 (Indian Mutiny 1857-1859)