Sepoy, 4th (Rifle Regiment) Bombay Infantry, 1895 (c)

Watercolour drawing by Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1895 (c).

Study of a sepoy of the 4th (Rifle Regiment) Bombay Infantry.

The regiment had its origins in Rajput forces recruited by the East India Company. The 4th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, formed in 1824, became a rifle regiment in the 1880s and officially became the 4th Bombay Rifles in 1901. The reorganisation of the Indian Army in 1903 resulted in a change of name to the 104th Wellesley Rifles.