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==Summary==
This image appears on Richard Pillinger’s website [http://www.majorpillinger.com/index.php Major Roland Pillinger: A Soldier of the British Empire]. Major Pillinger joined the Tenth Royal (Prince of Wales Own) Hussars in Canterbury in 1879 and served until 1913 rising “ by sheer force of character from Private to Major and Quarter-Master”
Richard Pilllinger has generously given permission for FIBIS to display the image which appears to be an ink drawing from a memorial book, of a Memorial to the Soldiers of the Regiment lost in the Afghan Campaign in 1878-9. Below the base there are the words "R.C.ROMANEL TENTH HUSSARS ". One Officer and 46 NCOs and men were drowned crossing the Cabul River and a further 38 men died of cholera on the way back to Rawal Pindi, when an outbreak set upon the Regiment in the Khyber Pass. There is some detail of the tragedy in the Cabul River and the cholera strike in a regimental publication ''A Short History of the Xth P.O.W. Royal Hussars'' by Lieut-Colonel John Vaughan and Major Roland Pillinger
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