Tuesday 23 April 2019

Afghan soldiers



Jazailchis in the service of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan of Kabul, 1857. By Peter Stark Lumsden.


Irregular Afghan soldiers, Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1879 (c). Source


Dourraunnee chieftains in full armour, 1840 (c). By James Rattray. Source

An oil on canvas of two Afghan blue soldiers on the North west Frontier, 1879, one horseman with henna beard, turban, spear and round shield with three bolts, on a white horse with woven saddle with red and blue tassles, the horse being led by a soldier with his back to the viewer, with a musket over his shoulder, set against a mountainous sunset with low clouds, signed and dated lower left W. Fane 1879. By General Walter Fane (1828-1885). 


An Afghan infantryman at the peace negotiations, August 1919. Source


Afghan soldiers on horseback ambushing at Khyber Pass, Second Anglo-Afghan War, illustration from the magazine The Graphic, volume XVIII, no 474, December 28, 1878.



                 Two followers of Sultan Muhammad Khan Barakzai, 1838. Painting by Emily Eden.

A picket of Afghan infantry at the boundary line between the British and Afghan territory on N.W Frontier, 1920s.



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