Is rum only a Royal Navy tradition? It was issued daily (a pint, diluted 3:1) to British sailors for over 300 years, from the mid 1600's until 1970! (The Royal Canadian Navy did not discontinue the daily rum issue until 1972 ...)
Outstanding resolution in this photo of Photo of Lieut. Stamford after the battle of Yang Sing.This is described as typical sleeping quarters of an officer in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.Strange, but does his saber look like a Marine Mamaluke?
If there are no objections I would like to add some of these photos to the GAF web site home page of random pictures that are displayed.
I found a copy of this at about 6 meg, I haven't had time to work with it yet. If I don't get to it in a few days someone send me a nasty-gram and remind me, I've got it down-loaded at home, it's in a TIF format and I need to crop and convert sections to JPEG to post.
I notice his campaign hat has the round screen vent, like the pre-1889 model.
This Japanese Police Saber has a similar profile, but scabbard only single ring. http://therionarms.com/antiques/therionarms_t099.html