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TOP: Indian Army Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers, 2nd Regiment of Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force. Oil on canvas by Gordon Hayward (1890).

BELOW: The photograph the painting was based on (1859).

The sitters are Rissaldars Bishan Singh and Hakdad Khan; Daffadars Bishan Singh, Sarmukh Singh and Panjab Singh; and Jemadars Jamyat Singh, Jiwan Singh and Sher Singh. Jamyat or Jumeeyuyt Singh, standing at the back on the right was responsible for saving the life of Captain (later Major-General Sir) Dighton Probyn early in the Mutiny and on 31 August 1858 he was one of the three men who saved Captain (later General Sir) Samuel Browne at Seerporah, in the action for which the latter won the VC but lost his arm.

Courtesy National Army Museum.