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  • The Empress miniatures figures for the Zulu war are much closer (and compatible with the Perry figures) although technically the helmets from the Perry figures would be right because of the pugarees (which the Zulu war perios figures didn't have).

    Music to paint by legatus hedlius 2008

  • Helmets were white with blue pugarees or puggaree, pugree or pagri depending on how you spell it.

    Royal Naval Brigade: Uniforms: Officers legatus hedlius 2007

  • Helmets were white with blue pugarees or puggaree, pugree or pagri depending on how you spell it.

    Archive 2007-08-01 legatus hedlius 2007

  • Looking at its white paint and sun-blinds one thinks vaguely of pugarees and even of palm trees.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Looking at its white paint and sun-blinds one thinks vaguely of pugarees and even of palm trees.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Looking at its white paint and sun-blinds one thinks vaguely of pugarees and even of palm trees.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • All ranks were fitted with helmets (on which pugarees had to be fixed under the eye of the few old soldiers who had been abroad and knew how to do it), and also with a complete outfit of khaki drill clothing.

    The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie

  • We were guided to the Bazaar, and introduced to several hotels by some five score natives, whose numbers increased as we proceeded, and were augmented by numerous sellers of sun toppee, pugarees, etc.

    Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Robert B. Booth

  • Looking at its white paint and sun-blinds one thinks vaguely of pugarees and even of palm trees.

    The Innocence of Father Brown: The Wrong Shape Gilbert Keith 1911

  • Looking at its white paint and sun-blinds one thinks vaguely of pugarees and even of palm trees.

    The Innocence of Father Brown 1905

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