Field service forage cap, Torin type, worn by Brigadier Francis Herman Barclay Ingall, 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers, 1930 (c)

Dark blue cloth crown and curtain with gold braid piping, with small hallmarked silver badge, with crossed lances with regimental number, '6', over title, 'The Duke of Connaught's Own'.

Francis Herman Barclay Ingall (1908-1998) was born in Oxted, Surrey. He was educated at Hurstpierpoint public school in West Sussex. Ingall attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1927 and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in 1929. He transferred from the Essex Regiment to the Indian Army in 1929, joining the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers. Ingall saw active service on the North West Frontier. In 1931 he is reputed to have been one of last Indian Army officers to lead a cavalry charge on the Indian subcontinent. This would have been in operations on the Khajuri Plain against Afridi tribesmen during the Redshirt Rebellion (1930-1931).

Ingall wrote a memoir of his time with the the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers entitled, 'Last of the Bengal Lancers'. He went on to serve with the Army Remount Service and the Indian Army Armoured Corps Officer Training School but later rejoined the 6th Lancers to serve in Italy during World War Two (1939-1945). He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his actions in the campaign. After the War Ingall served with the Pakistan Army where he was involved in establishing a military academy on the same lines as Sandhurst. He retired in 1951 and moved to California. in later years he and his wife, Margaret, ran a restaurant in San Francisco, named 'The Bengal Lancer'. He died of pneumonia on 21 August 1998.

Ingall apparently acted alongside David Niven in amateur dramatics at Sandhurst and when he moved to California he was a member of Actors Equity and the Screen Actors Guild, acting in a number of films, television programmes and advertisements.