1855 Colonel Brownrigg C.B.
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-1-155

Description

Copy of a photograph of Col John Studholme Brownrigg CB., Grenadier Guards, 1855, originally taken by Roger Fenton. He is pictured standing, probably in a studio, wearing full dress and with his sword hanging from his sword belt. His right hand rests on a small pillar. He is wearing his decoration as a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and his Crimean medal with 3 clasps. 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)