21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers, Mounted Officer and Corporal Trumpeter, by Douglas Anderson, 1998

Douglas Napier Anderson Jr., (b.1927) was the son of Douglas Napier Anderson, a commercial artist and illustrator. Born in Glasgow, he trained at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1952, He was called up for National Service with the Highland Light Infantry. He became well known as an illustrator military books including the Rev Terry Brighton’s ‘The Last Charge: the 21st Lancers and the Battle of Omdurman’ (Marlborough: Crowood, 1998); ‘Masters of Battle: Monty, Patton and Rommel at War’ (London: Penguin, 2008) ‘Winston's Charge: Lieutenant Churchill and the British Army's Last Cavalry Charge’ (Hard Corps Books, 2020).