Garrison Orders - Major T D C Hamilton Brigade Major and Garrison Serjeant Major.
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1978-10-104-42
Description
Photograph of Maj Thomas de Courcy Hamilton VC (left) giving orders to the unnamed Garrison Serjeant Major of the Corfu garrison, 1860 (c). Hamilton was the Major of the Brigade for the Ionion Islands, a Staff appointment he held from 1857 to 1862. He wears light-coloured trousers with a tunic and cocked hat. His Crimea medal and Victoria Cross are worn on his chest, alongside other medals and decorations. The GSM, in peaked cap and tunic, also has a Crimean medal. From a photograph album of 83 photographs compiled for the Corfu Garrison Club by Capt Arthur E V Ponsonby, Grenadier Guards and presented by him on the garrison's departure to Deputy Commissary General Robert Grey Donaldson-Selby, 1859-1860.