SKETCH BOOK relating to 17th Bengal Infantry India 1899

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VERY LARGE REGIMENTAL SKETCH BOOK PRESENTED TO THE OFFICERS MESS. Full dark red leather, binding worn with front board and spine detatched, however watercolour sketches are superb and and clean, with actual cut-out photos of the officers used to represent the heads in each sketch.Front board inscribed in gilt: PRESENTED TO THE OFFICERS MESS, XVII (LOYAL) BENGAL INFANTRY, BY CAPT J C SUTHERLAND, 1899The album contains 11 comical sketches, rest of the pages are bank. Size is 15 x 11 inches. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTION FOR EPHEMERA RELATING TO THE 17TH BENGAL INFANTRY The 17th Infantry (The Loyal Regiment) was an infantry regiment of the Bengal Army , later of the united British Indian Army . It was formed at Phillour , Punjab in 1858 by Major J. C. Innes from men of the 3rd, 36th and 61st Bengal Native Infantry regiments who remained loyal to the British East India Company during the Indian Mutiny , and designated The Loyal Purbiah Regiment .[ 1] It was subsequently re-designated as follows:- 17th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry – 1861 17th (The Loyal Purbiah) Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry – 1864 17th (The Loyal Purbiah) Regiment of Bengal Infantry –1885 17th (The Loyal Regiment) of Bengal Infantry – 1898 17th Musalman Rajput Infantry (The Loyal Regiment) – 1902 Its final designation came in 1903 with the Kitchener reforms read more

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