The Storming of the Redoubt, A Ponsonby, 1855
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Accession Number

NAM.2016-10-23-78-1

Description

Manuscript poem (4pp) written by Col Arthur Ponsonby of the Grenadier Guards at the ‘camp before Sebastopol’ (1855), entitled ‘The Storming of the Redoubt’ mentioning officers by name and some aspects of the advance on the redoubt. Associated with 1st (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards, Siege of Sevastopol, Crimean War (1854-1856). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

Events

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