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Photograph of Lt Gen Sir George Brown and his Staff taken by Roger Fenton, Crimea, 1855. Sir George Brown sits on a chair in the centre of the group with his arms folded. A soldier sits on the ground to the right and the others stand in a semicircle around Brown. They are all wearing military uniform and several wear bicorn hats. There is a wall of rocks and a hillside behind. They include: Major Edmund G Hallewell, 28th (The North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot; Col John Studholme Brownrigg Grenadier Guards (second from the left), Captain Richard L O Pearson, Grenadier Guards, Captain Arthur E V Ponsonby, Grenadier Guards; Colonel James Talbot Airey, Coldstream Guards and Captain William Thomas Markham, Coldstream Guards. From a photograph album of 70 images compiled by Gen Sir George Whitmore, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers in Malta, between 1811 and 1829; photographs include Malta, Gibraltar, Constantinople and the Crimea, 1850s-1880s; with some taken by James Robertson, Felice Beato and Roger Fenton. Sir George Whitmore was also an architect, designing buildings in Malta and Greece.

Crimean War (1854-1856)