3-043-830 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches of the camp at Wimbledon, 1872. Meeting of the National Rifle Association on Wimbledon Common, south-west London...The sketches of camp and field represent a few very ordinary incidents. They occurred on Saturday, the day of the review, in which the Life Guards, Lancers, and Royal Horse Artillery acted with the volunteers. The encampment of the Royal Horse Artillery is shown in one of these sketches. Another gives the interior of a volunteer's tent, with a lady visitor, who may be his wife or sister. The well-known lady on horseback, wearing a military uniform and sword, who is wont to make a figure at every metropolitan volunteer review, will be recognised here. Bandsmen off duty, while the manoeuvres are in progress, take their ease upon the verdant turf. Varieties of martial headgear fill up the remaining corner'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.