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Grenadier Guards mounting guard at Buckingham Palace
22 - 22 Jun 1855Salted paper print | 11.8 x 14.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2500172
Photograph of Grenadier Guards who served in the Crimean War mounting guard at Buckingham Palace. There are around thirty soldiers standing in pairs facing left. They are wearing dress uniform and are carrying rifles. Buckingham Palace can be seen behind.
Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return to Britain she met a number of veterans at Buckingham Palace and at the military hospital at Chatham.
Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return to Britain she met a number of veterans at Buckingham Palace and at the military hospital at Chatham.
Creator(s)
Unknown Person (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Infantry-Foot Guards (1st or Grenadier) (1819- )11.8 x 14.3 cm (image)
29.5 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
Grenadier Guards mounting guard at Buckingham Palace, 22 June 1855 [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
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Greater London [England]
- London [Greater London]
- City of Westminster [London]
- Buckingham Palace
- City of Westminster [London]
- London [Greater London]
- Greater London [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- 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
