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Regimental Staff. 6th M. I. 04. Photograph showing a uniformed group of five officers, 6th Mounted Infantry, Middleburg, South Africa, 1904. Photograph taken by McKenzie & Brown, Middelburg, Cape Colony. The group is of three rows. Two officers stand: The Adjutant, Captain W E L Stewart stands on the right of the photograph carrying a bamboo cane and QM Beamish stands to the left. Duncan, the CO sits on the left whilst Crocker, Duncan’s second-in-command sits on the right. Fletcher, the Civil Surgeon, sits cross-legged in the foreground. All are pictured in front of a corrugated metal hut. From 31 photographs mostly relating to the Boer War, compiled by Capt W E L Stewart, 1900.