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Captain Henry William Verschoyle
May 1855Albumen print | 18.1 x 13.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2500287
Photograph of Captain Henry William Verschoyle (1835-70) standing facing slightly left in front of a fabric background. He is wearing military uniform and holding a sword in his right hand.
Captain Verschoyle joined the Grenadier Guards in April 1851 and served in all of the major battles of the Crimean War including the Siege of Sebastopol. During the Battle of Inkermann he was praised for carrying his regimental colours when surrounded by the enemy, and he was later wounded in the trenches on the 5th September 1855. Captain Verschoyle was an exhibiting member of the London Photographic Society alongside his mother Catherine Verschoyle, who had been one of its earliest members. His son, Captain Edward Greville Verschoyle, was killed in the Boer War.
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Verschoyle, Henry William, Captain (1835-70)Army-GB-Infantry-Foot Guards (1st or Grenadier) (1819- )18.1 x 13.6 cm (image)
57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)
Capt Verschoyle Gds
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Clothing
- Costume
- Uniforms
- Military uniforms
- Uniforms
- Costume
- Clothing
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Arms (weapons)
- Side arms (weapons)
- Swords
- Side arms (weapons)
- Arms (weapons)
- Military engineering
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
