Grenadier Guards mounting guard at Buckingham Palace

Photograph of Grenadier Guards who served in the Crimean War mounting guard at Buckingham Palace. There are around thirty soldiers standing in a loose formation. They are wearing dress uniform and are carrying rifles which they are holding overlapped in front of them to form crosses. 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.