1857 UNIFORMS & ORGANIZATIONS ETC PART 1 - ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS Infantry Small Arms Queen's regiments serving in India were provided with the approved patterns of service musket under the arrangements of the Board of Ordnance. The P1853 '3-band' Enfield rifle had been adopted, but when the Mutiny broke out only 1st/60th Rifles was fully equipped with the new weapon. The other British regiments already serving in India at that time still carried percussion muskets. There were sufficient Enfields to hand in India for some British regiments of the Allahabad Moveable Column to have Enfield-armed flank companies. All regiments arriving in India from England, or from the diverted China expedition, were Enfield armed. Of the EIC European regiments only the 1st Madras Fusiliers was universally armed with the P1853 Enfield from the outset. The regiment went into action without having had the opportunity to train with the weapon. The Home Army's percussion muskets c...