NAM.1953-02-16-1

The former 'Hyderabad Contingent' Cavalry, 30th Lancers (Gordon’s Horse) Lance Daffadar - Jat, 20th Deccan Horse, Sikh, 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse) Risaldar - Dekhani Musalman, 1910. Watercolour, signed and dated lower right by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1910. The original for the illustration opposite p46 of Major G F MacMunn’s 'Armies of India'. Three figures, one mounted, in a hilly landscape. They include a mounted Jat Lance Daffadar of the 30th Lancers (Gordon’s Horse), a Sikh of the 20th Deccan Horse and a Dekhani Musalman Risaldar of the 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse). These three regiments originally belonged to the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad, but during the 1903 Kitchener reforms became part of the Indian Army.