The siege train was formed from the ranks of the Garrison Artillery for service in South Africa in 1900, the group are shown wearing the Khaki uniforms designed for overseas service. The pith helmets have khaki covers and leather chin straps they are wound with cloth puggaris which have unit flashes on the left side. Khaki is the Hindustani word for dust/mud.
Siege train officers. In all about 32 officers, and over 1,1oo men, drawn chiefly from Portsmouth, Plymouth, Exeter, and Devonport, are with the siege train in South Africa. They know the work thoroughly, and are all under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Perrott, who is represented in the picture, with Captain and Adjutant Currie, and Captain De Brett, DSO, on his left, and Major Allen, Major Nicholls, and Captain Strange on his right. These are the principal officers to whom the highly-important duties of the siege train are assigned, but the full exercise of their activity and experience will come later on in the war, when the time arrives for crushing the final opposition of the Boers. Meanwhile, however, the officers of the siege train have been very well employed. https://www.angloboerwar.com/unit-information/imperial-units/582-royal-regiment-of-artillery
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