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Record of historical events

Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion

CUNDALL & HOWLETT

Three Soldiers of the Coldstream Guards

1856

Salted paper print | 23.4 x 18.7 cm (image) | RCIN 2500203

Photograph of three soldiers from the Coldstream Guards who served in the Crimean War. From left to right are Joseph Numa, John Potter and James Deal. Potter is sitting on a wooden table wearing a bearskin hat and with a rucksack on his knee. Numa and Deal are both resting one leg on the table and are each holding a rifle. All three are wearing the uniform of their regiment with a medal.

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)

  • 23.4 x 18.7 cm (image)

  • Joseph Numa, John Potter and James Deal, Coldstream Guards, 1856

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)