The last in my series of Victorian rifle volunteers feature the 24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, aka "Post Office Rifles". These were the first group of volunteer rifles to come under fire, serving with the British army in the desert sands of Kassassin, Egypt in 1882.
Given the arid and dusty conditions, I have added a little desert onto their puttees and trousers. For some peculiar reason I chose to depict them with British-Indian army style puttees instead leather gaiters, which is what they would have worn. But, well, I like them this way!
From the blog - a little history -
https://suburbanmilitarism.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/the-postman-always-shoots-twice/
And some more pics -
https://suburbanmilitarism.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/the-post-office-rifles-in-egypt/
Cheers,
Marvin