Tribute to Resaldar Major Kesar Singh Sirdar Bahadur
THE group of Indian Cavalrymen who form the subject of our illustration comprised the Queen’s Indian escort on the occasion of the State opening of the Imperial Institute, three years ago. They are typical specimens of a force that justly claims to be as fine a fighting body as any the word can show, and represent individually eight of the smartest of the regiments of the Indian Army: the widely famous Guides’ Cavalry (Queen’s own), of the North West Frontier: the Central India Horse: the 1st Bengal Cavalry (the famous 1st Irregulars of past times): the 9th Bengal Laneers (the renowned 1st Hodson’s Horse); the 11th (Prince of Wales’s Own) Bengal Laneers; the 18th Bengal Laneers, known of old on the battlefield as the 2nd Mahratta Horse; the 1st Punjaub Cavalry; and the 1st Bombay Cavalry, the old “Poona Horse.”
