Photograph: Captain Arthur Layard, 1855.
Photograph of Captain Arthur Layard (1819-1855), 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot, killed in the Crimea, 7 Aug 1855.
Photograph by Roger Fenton, 1855.
Full length portrait of Captain Layard, 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot, with horse.
Framed in velvet lined case.
Associated with the Crimean War (1854-1856), 1855.
Layard was the younger brother of the Radical Member of Parliament, Austen Henry Layard. His letters to his brother are generally critical of the higher military authorities. Layard died of disease on 7 Aug 1855.