3-086-060 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

With the Tirah Expeditionary Force: a typical Gurkha, 1898. 'Sketched from Life by Lieutenant-Colonel C. Pulley, Gurkha Rifles. The Gurkha (writes our military correspondent, Lieutenant-Colonel Pulley) has never yet been shown to the public at home as he really appears. I have drawn this sketch from life, and it is a faithful likeness of the original as I caught him lounging against the wall of the entrenched camp. The 1st Batt. 3rd Gurkha Rifles have now been seven months in the field, having served from the beginning of the campaign in the Samana operations under the late General Yeatman Biggs. Their scouts have done much excellent work, and the battalion as a whole, belonging as it did to the 4th Brigade (General Westmacott's), has had its fair share of the fighting and hard work in this campaign. Yet the Gurkha, unrepresented as he was at the Diamond Jubilee, is to many in appearance an unknown quantity'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.