photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2023-11-18-1-10

Description

Photograph of Gen Sir George Brown and his Staff from the Light Division who served with him during the Crimean War, 1855-65 (c). Semi-formal group image of the General (sitting on a felled tree trunk, third from the right with his arms crossed) surrounded by eight of his Staff officers. They are all wearing morning suits and some hold hats or umbrellas. There is a wall and some trees behind them. From a photograph album of 70 images compiled by Gen Sir George Whitmore, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers in Malta, between 1811 and 1829; photographs include Malta, Gibraltar, Constantinople and the Crimea, 1850s-1880s; with some taken by James Robertson, Felice Beato and Roger Fenton. Sir George Whitmore was also an architect, designing buildings in Malta and Greece.

Campaigns

Crimean War (1854-1856)