National Army Museum

Pioneer Regiments, 1908 (c)

watercolour, drawing

Accession Number

NAM.1953-02-30-1

Description

Pioneer Regiments, 1908 (c). Watercolour, signed and dated lower left by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1908 (c). The original for the illustration opposite p90 of Major G F MacMunn’s Armies of India, published in 1911. Eleven figures: 34th Sikh Pioneers; 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment); 128th Pioneers; 23rd Sikh Pioneers; 64th Pioneers; 61st Prince of Wales’s Own Pioneers; 48th Pioneers; 81st Pioneers; 106th Hazara Pioneers; 107th Pioneers.

Units

106th Hazara Pioneers, (1904 - 1922)

107th Pioneers, (1903 - 1922)

12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment), (1903 - 1922)

128th Pioneers, (1903 - 1922)

23rd Sikh Pioneers

34th Sikh Pioneers

48th Pioneers

61st King George's Own Pioneers

64th Madras Pioneers

81st Pioneers

People

Lovett, Alfred Crowdy

Dimensions

Width: 58 cm Text: 38 cm

Inscriptions

Signed and dated lower left 'A.C.LOVETT' ‘Pioneer Regiments’, 34th Sikh; Naik (Jat Sikh); 12th Pioneers (the Kelat-i- Ghilzai Regiment) (Jat); 128th Pioneers, Yusufzai (Pathan); 81st & 64th Pioneers, (Tamils); 61st KGO Pioneers (Madrasi Musulman); 48th Pioneers, (Labana Sikh); 23rd Sikh Pioneers, Jemadar; 106th Hazara Pioneers & 34th Sikh Pioneers, Subedars-Major; 107th Pioneers (Kaimkhani)’