The 7th, 1910 (c).
watercolour, with pen and ink, drawing
Accession Number

NAM.2001-04-66-1

Description

The 7th, 1910 (c). Watercolour with pen and ink, 1910 (c). Signed centre left ‘CR’ possibly for ‘Caran Rouge’. Caricature of an officer, depicted full-length in profile, looking to right, wearing white gloves. Relating to the Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment. Belonged to Maj James Edward Galbraith DSO, Royal Fusiliers and 1st King’s African Rifles. Maj Galbraith served in East Africa, and then during World War One on the Western Front, where he captured the ‘Kaiser’s flag’. He also served in World War Two.