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Captain Duncombe F B Buckley (d.1855)

1854-5

Salted paper print | 18.7 x 13.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2500110

Photograph of Captain Duncombe F B Buckley seated in an armchair facing partly left. He is wearing a dark coat with a velvet collar and a checked necktie. The edge of a small table can be seen to the left.

Captain Duncombe F B Buckley served with the Scots Fusilier Guards during the Crimean War. He was wounded at the Battle of Alma and then killed during the Siege of Sevastopol.

  • Creator(s)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

  • 18.7 x 13.3 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Captain Duncombe Frederick B. Buckley, Scots Fusilier Guards, c.1856 [in Crimean Officers Portraits, 1854 - 1856]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
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