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Buglers, Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade
Unknown, 1885, Photograph
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Buglers, Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade
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20409
Title
Buglers, Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade
Description
A group of nine buglers from the Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade pose in a field full of tents. They are all wearing uniforms including pillbox hats and are carrying bugles.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1885
Size
17.7 x 25.3 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Accession number
20035
The Queens Rifle Volunteer Brigade or 1st City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Corps was formed in 1859 in reaction to British anxiety over the threat of invasion from France. From 1888 they became known as the Queens Rifle Volunteer Brigade The Royal Scots and in 1908 became the 4th and 5th Battalions of the Royal Scots (Queens Edinburgh Rifles).
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