pithhelmets

I'm going to guess this was a copy, and that one of the soldiers is a relation of the Mrs. Gough who ordered it.

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The Gambia Regiment is a possibility, per wikipedia:
The parade uniform of the regiment consisted of khaki drill shorts with red fezzes, along with scarlet zouave-style jackets. The jacket style was inherited from the West India Regiment. The jackets had a yellow edging and red cummerbunds. In the field, the regiment originally wore a variation of the Kilmarnock cap, but just prior to World War II this changed to the slouch hat. Similarly, British officers attached to the regiment initially wore pith helmets, but they also later changed to the slouch hat. Although most uniforms in the RWAFF were similar, the special distinction of the Gambia Regiment was a khaki and brown puggree, and a brown cummerbund.

Similar?

collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1977-09-130-6

Or the Northern Nigeria regiment, maybe

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Pith Helmets, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Oh wow they had Canon 1Ds mkIII's in 1882?! Hehe I guess you are using this to speed up the scanning workflow, good idea. The results are very nice, I am sure you are busy but I would be very interested to see a snap of your capture setup and a bit of info about lighting, exposure etc. if you don't mind sharing and have the time of course. Keep up the good work =)

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NYT of Sept 18, 1910 has a piece about this organization query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D1FFE345D16738...

Thanks swanq. We will include some of this information in the image description when we update.