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CUNDALL & HOWLETT
Colour Sergeant William Pocock
1856Salted paper print | 23.5 x 17.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2500200
Photograph of Colour Sergeant William Pocock standing facing forwards with both hands resting on his rifle. He is wearing military uniform with a bearskin and has a sword by his side.
Colour Sergeant William Pocock served with the Grenadier Guards during the Crimean War. Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return from the Crimea she met a number of the veterans at Buckingham Palace, Chatham Military Hospital and Aldershot Garrison. Following these meetings she commissioned a series of photographs of the veterans from the photographers Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett.
Colour Sergeant William Pocock served with the Grenadier Guards during the Crimean War. Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return from the Crimea she met a number of the veterans at Buckingham Palace, Chatham Military Hospital and Aldershot Garrison. Following these meetings she commissioned a series of photographs of the veterans from the photographers Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett.
Creator(s)
Cundall & Howlett (photographer)
Subject(s)
William Pocock (fl.1855)Army-GB-Infantry-Foot Guards (1st or Grenadier) (1819- )23.5 x 17.8 cm (image)
29.5 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
Colour Sergeant William Pocock, Grenadier Guards, c. 1856 [in Crimean Portraits 1854 - 1856]
- Acquired by Queen Victoria
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
- Firearms
- Guns
- Side arms (weapons)
- Arms (weapons)
- Military engineering
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Plastic arts
- Numismatics
- Medals
- Campaign medals
- Crimea Medal (1854-56)
- Campaign medals
- Medals
- Numismatics
- Plastic arts
- 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
