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Part of the 77th Regiments Cemetery with some of the Officers tombstones April 1856
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Accession Number

NAM.1994-01-1-417-24

Description

Photograph: Part of the 77th Regiments Cemetery with some of the Officers tombstones April 1856. Photograph by James Robertson, 1856. From Crimean War scrapbook belonging to Maj (later Col) George Harry Smith Willis, 77th Foot (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot, 1854-1856 (c). Cemetery including the graves of Capt Parker and Capt Audley Lemprière, 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot. On 21 Apr 1855, Colonel Egerton and Captain Lemprière were buried side by side in the 77th Regiment’s graveyard on the left of the Vorontsov road, near the Picquet House. Lord Raglan and Lt Gen Sir George Brown both attended the interment. The graves are in the second row in this photograph. From the Middlesex Regiment Museum Collection.

Campaigns

Crimean War (1854-1856)

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