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Colonel John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple

1854-6

Salted paper print | 18.8 x 13.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2500114

Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple standing facing left with his head turned towards the camera. He is wearing civilian clothes and has his left hand in his jacket pocket.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple served in the Crimean War and was injured in the knee at the Battle of Alma.

  • Creator(s)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Army-GB-Infantry-Scots Fusilier Guards (1832-1877)
    Army-GB
    Colonel John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple (1818-88)

  • 18.8 x 13.1 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrympole, Scots Fusilier Guards, c.1855 [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)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
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