White Armband

Posts : 2593 Join date : 2009-04-24

Does anyone know, which mounted native unit appears in the image?
They are wearing white armbands. NNC worn Red armbands.

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Subject: Re: White Armband Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:15 pm

CTSG,

It is Jantze's Native Horse. The engraving is based on a sketch by Charles Fripp, who depicted himself in the sketch.

What you have to realise the person who has coloured the black & white engraving hasn't got a clue about the Zulu War, hence the blue rather than red pugaree.

There is a photograph that appears in Laband & Knight's The War Correspondents of the Anglo-Zulu War, published 1996, which shows a Native Horse unit clearly wearing white armbands.

John Y.

Posts : 2593 Join date : 2009-04-24

Thank you John. Salute

I take it Fripp, is the gent in white, with the sketch pad?

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