Illustrations from Her Majesty's Army Volume 1 & 2
ABOUT THE ARTIST
G Douglas Giles was a Victorian military artist whose paintings include the Battle of Tamai and El Teb. He also painted many military uniform paintings during the 1880's. Born in India in 1857 G Douglas Giles became a well known painter of military scenes and uniform plates as well as both horse-racing and hunting canvases. As a young man he joined the army leaving the army in 1884, his main paintings depicted the Sudan and Aghan campaigns and he exhibited his work in 1885 in Paris. He died in 1885
1st Life Guards
Royal Dragoons
10th Hussars
16th Lancers
Royal Horse Artillery
Royal Artillery
Royal Engineers
Scots Guards
Queen's Regt
East Yorks
R Scots Fusiliers
R Welsh Fusiliers
S Wales Borderers
R Scots Borderers
East Lancs
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R. Sussex
Black Watch
Oxford Light Inf
Middlesex
Durham Light Inf
Seaforth Hldrs
Cameron
R. Irish Fusiliers
HAC Cavalry
Staffordshire Yeo
London Scottish
Artists Rifles
Victoria Rifles
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Henry Richard Sharland Bunnett was born in 1845 in Genoa, Italy. At some point, his family moved to England until 1885, when he travelled to Canada. He joined the Victoria Rifles in Montreal. He became a sergeant and later was promoted to Captain. In Montreal he produced a large number of paintings and drawings, documenting views and buildings of Montreal, Quebec City, and other areas of Quebec. He created a series of watercolours of Colonial British military uniforms later published in Walter Richards’ “Her Majesty’s Army” Volume 3. Bunnett returned to England in 1889 and died there in 1910.
Illustrations by H.R.S. Bunnett
from Her Majesty's Army Volume 3
5th Royal Scots
Canada
2nd Q.O. Rifles
Canada
6th Hussars
Canada
Victoria Artilllery
Australia
Victoria Infantry
Australia
West India
Regiment
Viceroy's BodyGuard
India
13th Bengal Cav
India
Victoria Mtd Rifles
Australia
Cape Mtd Rifles
S. Africa
Bombay Artillery
India
11th Bengal Inf
India
14th Bengal Inf
India
1st Madras Pioneers
India
3rd Gurkha Rifles
India
