photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2017-09-7-6-86
Description
Photograph of an elderly lady in black clothes and a white head-dress standing in the garden of a large house with her arm outstretched. In her hand stands a robin, 1903 (c). She is possibly Frances Charlotte Gascoigne (nee Wombell), the mother of Lt Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne. Her black clothes may mean she is in mourning - her husband, Lt Col Clifton Gascoigne, died in 1903. From an album of 99 photographs compiled by or presented to Captain (later Brig-Gen) Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne. The album is entitled: ‘Personal album E F O Gascoigne. 1st & 3rd Battalions - 1894-1905’, but covers the period 1892-1905; taken in England and Gibraltar.
