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Cat. 2 - Private, 24th Foot, 2nd Sikh War, 1849
作者：The Saint
The battle of Chillianwallah was fought by Anglo-Indian 'Army of the Punjaub' against the Sikh Army on 13 January, 1849, in what is now Pakistan.
The 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot stormed the Sikh line at the point of the bayonet, "without firing a shot", after charging for a mile, across jungle and ponds, ahead of any other troop and unsupported by artillery. The divisional commander, Sir Colin Campbell wrote in a report : "It is impossible for any troops to have surpassed H.M. 24th Foot in the gallantry displayed in the assault. This single regiment actually broke the enemy's line, and took the large number of guns in their front, the commanding officers of the brigade and regiment, together with numerous subordinate officers, dying at the captured guns. Finding itself surrounded, and the leaders having been killed, half the regiment being hors de combat, a ruinous retreat became inevitable." The regiment went to the assault over a thousand strong, and lost 21 officers, and 523 men.
I have been fascinated by the conduct and ordeals of the 24th at Chillianwallah since I began studying the Victorian Army and this is a figure I have always wanted to create.
According to Lt Lawrence-Archer, an officer attached to the regiment, the 24th went into action in "Full Dress", with the tall 'Albert' shako, and coatee. The only concessions to the climate was a white cotton kilted cover on the shako and the wearing of the summer 'lavender' tweed trousers. The men carried cross-belts supporting the cartridge pouch and the bayonet, as well as a haversack containing the rations. No waterbottle was worn; in India, the water was entrusted either to animals or to bhistis, or native carriers, who followed every regiment. The armament was the smoothbore Pattern 1842 percussion musket and its 17" blade socket bayonet.
I have used a DML HS and body, the former repainted and 'whiged', with 'hair' coming from a soft toy. The body was as usual thinned on the torso and shoulder area. The neck was slightly elongated, DML neck being notoriously short. The hands are Sideshow, secured on DML pegs.
The P42 musket was created on the basis of a Sideshow Enfield, with bits from Tony’s castings, its bayonet is a composite of a SST socket and a DiD (I think) blade.
The only other commercial items are DiD Dick boots, slightly modified.
All other stuff is custom. The coatee was made after a surviving one in the Green Howards Museum. The hunt for the proper colours for the cloth, ie the 'dull red' of the period Other Rank coatee and the 'grass green' of the 24th facing was quite an arduous one. The shako kilted cover was inspired by a contemporary Light Dragoon cover.
The source for the equipment is the inescapable Soldiers' Accoutrements of the British Army by Pierre Turner.
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