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Originally Posted by rmarsden
West Indians or Africans?
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British West India Regiment. Almost all the African units wore either a Terai (slouch) hat, a woollen cap comforter, or a so-called (by historians) Kilmarnock bonnet (aka pork-pie type 'forage cap').
P.S. Your picture is quite well known on the web, Ron, and comes from the same group of images as the one that I enclose.