3-077-911 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Easter Volunteer Manoeuvres: extra infantry drill, 1890. Soldier on military manoeuvres with wife and baby. 'Here is a valuable military force prepared to aid in the defence of the country...Our Artist's Sketches, though of a gently humorous and playful character, illustrate the ordinary personal experiences of Volunteers in a marching column which is two or three days on the road from London to the south coast'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.