Military Uniform Gallery

Field Marshal Lord Roberts, Commander in Chief of the forces in South Africa, 1902.Artist: Lafayette

Field Marshal Lord Roberts, Commander in Chief of the forces in South Africa, 1902. Sir Frederick, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914) was one of the foremost British military figures of Victorian times. Awarded the Victoria Cross in 1858 for his actions during the Indian Mutiny, Roberts is best known for his march to capture Kandahar during the Second Afghan War of 1878-1880. He was made Baron of Kandahar and Waterford in 1892 and promoted to Field Marshal in 1895. Roberts commanded the reinforcements sent to South Africa in 1900 after the setbacks of the early part of the Boer War. After his successful intervention in the South African campaign, he returned to England to become Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, a position which he held until 1904, when he retired from the army. Portrait from Celebrities of the Army, published by George Newnes, (London, 1902)

© The Print Collector / Heritage-Images

Bagpipe Player

24th September 1955: A bagpipe player of Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders wearing the Sutherland tartan at Stirling in Scotland. The regiment comprises of the combined forces of the 91st Argyllshires and the 93rd Sutherlands (of the Thin Red Line of Balaklava fame). Original Publication: Picture Post - 8005 - Famous Scottish Regiments 12 : The Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders - pub. 1955 (Photo by Malcolm Dunbar/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Conan Doyle

circa 1895: British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), creator of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle studied medicine at Edinburgh University and practised as a physician during the 2nd Boer War. He started publishing short stories in 1879 while working as a doctor in Southsea. The Sherlock Holmes stories were serialised in The Strand magazine and proved so popular that Doyle felt pressurized to revive the character after the detective had plunged to his death over a waterfall. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

© This content is subject to copyright