The Regiment will advance covered by the Grenadiers
watercolour, watercolour
Accession Number
NAM.1981-04-92-1
Description
The Regiment will advance covered by the Grenadiers. One of 20 watercolours from an album by Lt (later Maj Gen) Charles Walter D'Oyly, 58th [Bengal] Native Infantry, 1843-1862. Lieut Ellis (perspiring) ‘Confound this doubling – I’ve often told the Colonel Grenadiers were never intended for Light Infantry work!”’, 1848 (c). Sketches of life in the Indian Army, 1843-1862, including amusing incidents that befell the artist when a subaltern in the 58th Bengal Native Infantry.