NAM.1987-08-27-31

Winning Team. Alderson Cup Tournament. Polo. Pretoria. 05. Photograph showing a polo team of 4 officers, two seated and two behind, standing, on the carpeted stone steps of an Officers Mess, Pretoria, South Africa, 1904. The group wear riding boots, white polo shirts and jodhpurs and team markings of two sashes of different colours that cross over the chest. A silver trophy cup stands on the carpet between the seated officers. Two officers stand: Gentleman Sepp, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, to the left and Ritson ‘The Rector’ 5th Fusiliers to the right. Two seated officers are Duncan 1st Royals on the left, and Captain W E L Stewart on the right, his pained expression leading him to suggest he has seen a ghost!. From 31 photographs mostly relating to the Boer War, compiled by Capt W E L Stewart, 1900.