daguerreotype, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1992-04-218-2
Description
Daguerreotype photograph: Parents (?) of Assistant Surgeon Christopher Bakewell Bassano and family, 1850 (c). Christopher Bakewell Bassano (1824-1856) joined the 70th (The Surrey) Regiment of Foot as an assistant surgeon on 22 Dec 1848. He was appointed a staff surgeon, 2nd class on 10 Aug 1855 whereupon he travelled to the Crimea. He died at Balaklava on 1 Feb 1856.