Auction Catalogue

14 December 2011

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Militaria including the Collection of the late RE Handley

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 325

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14 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£1,250

A Victorian Photograph Album, containing numerous photographs of members of the 9th Bengal Cavalry (Hodson’s Horse), Circa 1890 and covering service in both India and the Sudan, the album generally distressed but containing some good group photographs and other superb images of the Indian Contingent in the Sudan £100-200

The album was compiled by Colonel R. M. Clifford, who was Second in Command of the 9th Bengal Cavalry in the Sudan, and a fine studio portrait of him in uniform wearing medals is included with the album.