'17th Lancers. Lucknow Novr 1885'

Photograph, India, 1885.

Portrait group of named officers. Rear row (from left to right): Captain Jenkins, J Dyer, W G Renton, B P Portal, Colonel S Boulderson, Captain J M Russell, Captain H McGee, C Anstruther Thomson and Captain F W Benson; seated, middle row (from left to right): Major the Honourable J Pleydell Bouverie, G F Milner, Captain M G Neeld, Colonel T A Cooke, Captain D Shawe and Major S M Benson; front row (left to right): the Honourable H A Lawrence, C Coventry, Captain T A Steele and C A S Warner.

Following the Zulu War (1879) the 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers was posted to India where it stayed for a decade before returning to Britain.

From an album of 72 photographs collected by Major (later Brigadier General Sir) Bertram Percy Portal (1885-1949), 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers, 1885-1907.