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Photograph is of a memorial that states: ‘Sacred to the memory of: Lt Colonel The Hon. T Vesey Dawson, Lt Colonel J. C. Murray Cowell, Captain Lionel D. Mackinnon, Captain The Hon Granville C. C. Eliot, Captain Henry M. Bouverie, Captain Frederick H. Ramsden, Lieutenant Edward A. Disbrowe, Lieutenant C. Hubert Greville of the Coldstream Guards who fell at the battle of Inkerman November 5, 1854. Brothers in arms in glory and in death they were buried in one grave.’ The memorial plaque is situated in St Paul’s Cathedral in London. As well as the text there are two Coldstream Guardsmen carved in relief standing on either side of the tablet. Above the text is a representation of a small gravestone with the names commemorated, surrounded by a wreath with a rocky landscape behind. 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.

Inkerman, Battle of, 1854 (Crimean War 1854-1856)