Cummerbund used by T H Kavanagh VC as part of his disguise to pass through ‘Mutineer’ lines at Lucknow 1857, Indian Mutiny (1857-1859).

Kavanagh’s description of his disguise was:

‘I was dressed as a bud mash [budmash], or as an irregular soldier of the city, with sword and shield, native-made shoes, tight trousers, a yellow silk koortah [kurta] over a tight-fitting white muslin shirt, a yellow-coloured chintz sheet thrown round my shoulders, a cream-coloured turban, and a white waist-band or kummerbund.’ His outfit was completed with a ‘pair of broad pyjamahs’.