3-078-243 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Military Police of Burmah: forming escort of baggage animals on the march, 1890. 'The Sketches by Surgeon A. E. Newland, of the Army Medical Staff in India, which have already been presented to our readers, were accompanied with a sufficiently precise account of the organisation and services of this useful force, which is commanded by Brigadier Stedman, and is composed, not of Burmese natives, but of men enlisted in the districts of Upper India, and of the Punjaub, that furnish the best recruits for the Indian Army. It is altogether separate from the Burmese Civil Police, which consists of Burmans; and its efficiency in the harassing warfare against the "dacoits," or banditti, who persist in their predatory attacks on villages in Upper Burmah, has been abundantly proved. Under the command of the English officers, two or three of whom are stationed with the Military Police in each district, these men fight as well as any native soldiers, and there is a long list of their honourable deeds within the past three years. Our present Illustration shows them engaged in forming an escort to baggage-elephants and bullocks on the march'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.