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<p>[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 378670, member: 136"]That seems to be a knapsack. They were carried on the back.</p><p><br /></p><p>The combination of uniforms and flags on this tin is probably greatly stylized. </p><p><br /></p><p>The guy in red and blue on the side with the word VICTORY (with the Highlander - in a very indistinct tartan) seems to be wearing a 9th Queen's Royal Lancers dress uniform, but the 9th & the Highlanders did not serve together in the Crimean War (which the scene sort of/maybe <i>appears</i> to be) although they did serve together in India and at the beginning of WWI. India probably would not have been "celebrated" with the VICTORY logo, which to my mind, brings thing back to WWI...</p><p><br /></p><p>I've sort of given up trying to make sense of the combination of uniforms/flags shown. I'm thinking it's more of a patriotic WWI item for the folks back home.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 378670, member: 136"]That seems to be a knapsack. They were carried on the back. The combination of uniforms and flags on this tin is probably greatly stylized. The guy in red and blue on the side with the word VICTORY (with the Highlander - in a very indistinct tartan) seems to be wearing a 9th Queen's Royal Lancers dress uniform, but the 9th & the Highlanders did not serve together in the Crimean War (which the scene sort of/maybe [I]appears[/I] to be) although they did serve together in India and at the beginning of WWI. India probably would not have been "celebrated" with the VICTORY logo, which to my mind, brings thing back to WWI... I've sort of given up trying to make sense of the combination of uniforms/flags shown. I'm thinking it's more of a patriotic WWI item for the folks back home.[/QUOTE]
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