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Colonel The Honble. Francis G Hood: Commanded with great distinction the Third Battalion Grenadier Guards at The Battle of The Alma. Killed in the trenches before Sebastopol. Octber. 18th 1854
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-1-122

Description

Photographic reproduction of an engraving of Colonel The Honourable Francis Grosvenor Hood, 1860s (c). It depicts Col Hood resting his right elbow on a plinth and holding a glove in his right hand. He is dressed in military undress uniform with a frock coat,and is gazing in to the distance. His sword is cradled in his left arm. Col Hood commanded the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, during the Crimean War until his death. The following caption is written by hand beneath; ‘Colonel The Honble. Francis G Hood: Commanded with great distinction the Third Battalion Grenadier Guards at The Battle of The Alma. Killed in the trenches before Sebastopol. Octber. 18th 1854’. From an album of 202 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive compiled by or presented to Surgeon Major James John Marjoribanks Wardrop. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album Surgeon Major Wardrup [sic], The Regiment, 1858-1868’, but covers the period 1854-1872. Mainly officers portraits. Grenadier Guards reference number 2.

Campaigns

Crimean War (1854-1856)