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==Robert's description==
In his memoir ''Forty One Years in India'', [[Frederick Roberts|Lord Roberts ]] described his first encounter with the Bengal Horse Artillery in 1852. The text contains a description of the regiment's uniform.
<blockquote>From Cawnpore I went to Meerut, and there came across, for the first time, the far-famed Bengal Horse Artillery, and made the acquaintance of a set of officers who more than realized my expectations regarding the wearers of the much-coveted jacket, association with whom created in me a fixed resolve to leave no stone unturned in the endeavour
to become a horse gunner. Like the Cavalry and Infantry of the East India Company's service, the Artillery suffered somewhat from the employment of many of its best officers
