NAM.1972-07-6-23-1

Wounded Officers carried to the rear, 18th June 1855. Watercolour and pencil by Capt (later Col) Henry John Wilkinson (1829-1911), 1st Bn 9th (The East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot, 1855. Associated with the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimean War (1854-1856). Wilkinson’s watercolour is inscribed in pencil verso, ‘Entrance to the Cemetery - Incident of the attack on Sebastopol 18th June 1855 Capt Agar Ellis 44th (?) Regt mortally wounded’. It depicts the wounded officer, Captain The Honourable Charles Welbore Herbert Agar (1824-1855), 44th (The East Essex) Regiment of Foot - lying on a litter addressing a colleague as he is carried from the field of battle. Although ‘Ellis Agar’ was one of the family surnames of the Earls of Normanton, The Honourable Charles Agar clearly did not assume it. Agar had joined the 44th Regiment as an ensign on 30 March1844, purchased a lieutenancy on 27 February 1846 and his captaincy on 25 March 1853.

Sevastopol, Siege of, 1854-55 (Crimean War 1854-1856)