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James Robertson (1813-88)
Memorial to officers of the Coldstream Guards 1855-1856
Salted paper print | 22.2 x 29.1 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500768
![Memorials of officers of the Coldstream Guards [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/4/a/335639-1351701395.jpg?itok=VH4EXoSM "Memorials of officers of the Coldstream Guards [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]")
Photograph of a memorial to officers of the Coldstream Guards near Sevastopol. The memorial consists of a stone set into the ground with cannonballs spaced on small pyramids around it. A low stone wall surrounds it and there is also a headstone, its inscription clearly visible. There are graves to either side of the memorial and there is a stone wall behind.
The memorial commemorates eight officers of the Coldstream Guards who died during the Battle of Inkerman, 5th November 1854.
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Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Infantry-Coldstream Guards (1819-)Army-GB-Infantry-Scots Fusilier Guards (1832-1877)Mackinnon, Lionel Daniel, Capt., Coldstream Guards (d.1854)Captain Henry Mantolieu Bouverie (d. 1854)Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot (1828-54)Captain Edward Amelius Disbrowe Coldstream Guards (c.1834-54)Ramsden, Frederick Henry, Capt., Coldstream Guards (d.1854)Cavendish Hubert Greville (d. 1854)Captain Hylton Jolliffe (d. 1854)Blair, James Hunter, Lt.-Col., Scots Fusilier Guards & MP for County of Ayr (d.1854)Thomas Vesey Dawson, Hon., Lt-Col. Coldstream Guards (d.1854)Murray Cowell, James Charles, Capt., Coldstream Guards (d.1854) -
22.2 x 29.1 cm (image) (image)
31.7 x 37.1 cm (mount)
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Memorials of officers of the Coldstream Guards [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
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From the collection of Queen Victoria
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Cemeteries
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Funerary architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Battle of Inkerman, 1854 (Crimean War)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- visual works
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