NAM.1963-06-34-2-11

John H Sylvester, (Bombay Medical Establishment, attached to) HM 14th Light Dragoons, Malwa Field Force. Watercolour by Charles Strutt, Bombay Artillery, Mhow, 27th Sept 1857. Oval half-length portrait in uniform as Assistant Surgeon. Associated with Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). Sylvester mentions Strutt in his memoirs. In 1854, at Ahmednagar, Headquarters of the European Artillery, ‘During the long hot days I painted with Lieutenant Strutt’. During the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859) Strutt and another Bombay Artillery lieutenant, Benjamin Christie, are described as the ‘moving spirits’ when operating breaching guns at the Siege of Dhar in 1857.

Indian Mutiny (1857-1859)