Three Indian Army NCOs, 1897

Photograph by F Bremner, Quetta, India, 1897.

In the Indian infantry the majority of native non-commissioned officers (NCOs) held the ranks of lance-naik, naik, havildar and havildar-major corresponding to the British ranks of lance-corporal, corporal, sergeant and sergeant-major. In the Indian cavalry the ranks were lance-dafadar, dafadar and kot dafadar.

From an album of 60 photographs taken by F Bremner, Quetta, 1897.