February

“No better soldier is to be found than within the Punjab itself, where the Sikh, the Hindu, and Mahomedan Jat… form as fine a ground work for an army as can be found in any country of the world”.

“The Rattray’s Sikhs, now known as the 45th Sikhs, are a splendid body of men. There is no finer regiment in the Bengal Army. They wear a circular quoit of steel round their blue puggries [turbans]… a weapon peculiar to this race”

(Extract from an article on types of the Bengal Army) Source: The Graphic, 8th March, 1890.