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'''Gun lascars''' were Indian recruits retained for manhandling and cleaning field artillery including pioneer work erecting batteries. | '''Gun lascars''', or gun-lascars, were Indian recruits retained for manhandling and cleaning field artillery including pioneer work erecting batteries. | ||
They were also described as a native powder-monkey.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/firstimpressions01baco#page/151/mode/1up Page 151] ''First impressions and studies from nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years residence in Bengal and the Doáb, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI , Volume I'', by Thomas Bacon, Lieut. Of the Bengal Horse Artillery 1837 Archive.org</ref> | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CtP1ImudK88C&pg=PA119&dq=The+evolution+of+the+artillery+in+India:+from+the+battle+of+Plassey+Gun+lascars+were+an+essential+component+of+the+artillery+arm&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false Gun lascars] Google Books | *[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CtP1ImudK88C&pg=PA119&dq=The+evolution+of+the+artillery+in+India:+from+the+battle+of+Plassey+Gun+lascars+were+an+essential+component+of+the+artillery+arm&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false Gun lascars] Google Books | ||
*[http://www.warfare.altervista.org/19C/Gold-Gun_Lascar_Corps.htm Image: Officers and Private of the Gun Lascar Corps, Madras Establishment] from Charles Gold's ''Oriental Drawings'' 1806. warfare.altervista.org | *[http://www.warfare.altervista.org/19C/Gold-Gun_Lascar_Corps.htm Image: Officers and Private of the Gun Lascar Corps, Madras Establishment] from Charles Gold's ''Oriental Drawings'' 1806. warfare.altervista.org | ||
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[[Category:Military ranks]] | [[Category:Military ranks]] | ||
Revision as of 23:50, 28 November 2015
Gun lascars, or gun-lascars, were Indian recruits retained for manhandling and cleaning field artillery including pioneer work erecting batteries. They were also described as a native powder-monkey.[1]
External links
- Gun lascars Google Books
- Image: Officers and Private of the Gun Lascar Corps, Madras Establishment from Charles Gold's Oriental Drawings 1806. warfare.altervista.org