
| Posing with his bicycle atop a leopard skin is Bombardier Sturgeon of the 3rd Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery or so the old pencil inscription on the reverse states. The insignia on his shoulder straps is unclear and he wears a Lance Corporal's stripe on his sleeve. His bicycle does not appear to be military issue but was probably epitome of everything that was modern to both the rider and those who say him riding by. Cabinet Photograph L.C. Mullick - Photograher Bruce Road, Quetta, India c 1890's |