NAM.1968-06-143-1

The late Major-General Sir William Penn Symons, K.C.B. mortally wounded at Talana in South Africa, 1890 (c). Colour photolithograph from a photograph by R Stanley, nd. No 144 in the series ‘Celebrities of the Army’. Published by George Newnes, 7-12 Southampton Street, WC, London, 1902. Shows subject in the full dress uniform of a captain in the South Wales Borderers.

Talana Hill, Battle of, 1899 (Boer War 1899-1902)