File:Group of officers, 8th Hussars - Roger Fenton, Crimea, 1855.jpg
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English: Title: Group of officers, 8th Hussars.
On the left of the photo is Regimental Sergeant-Major Harding wearing a coat over his uniform and a peakless forage cap. Seated next to him Quartermaster Lane in a sheepskin coat, officer's peaked forage cap and knee-length boots. The man in civilian clothes and French kepi is Paymaster Duberly. Leaning towards him is, according to Murray's regimental history, Sergeant-Major Harrison in a light coloured coat. He is wearing an officer's peaked forage cap?. The mounted officer is Captain Lord Killeen wearing a coat with fur collar and cuffs. The group on the other side has two NCOs standing behind on higher ground. These are Sergeant-Major Clarke and Sergeant O'Meara who feature in another photo. They are in stable dress and forage caps, carrying canes under their arms. The officer in dress jacket and forage cap reading a paper is named as Lieutenant Phillips. He is in another photo as Captain Phillips. He has a cane and is wearing undress trousers which have a yellow cloth stripe instead of gold. Standing next to Phillips is Doctor Anderson. The seated figures in the middle of this group are, from the left, Sergeant-Major Williams in a pelisse which has three rows of buttons compared with Lieut Phillips's five. In front of him is Cornet William Mussenden who rose to the position of Commanding Officer in 1874. Half hidden, next to Mussenden is Lieutenant C. W. Heneage who won the VC On 17 June 1858 at Gwalior, British India. Standing next to him is Captain Tomkinson. reference Arthur James Plunkett, then using the courtesy title of Lord Killeen, who served in the 8th Royal Irish Hussars as a captain and took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade and survived both the charge and the war. He would later succeed his father to become the Tenth Earl of Fingall.reference Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 16 x 17 cm. |
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| Depicted place | Crimea | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | September 1855 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | photograph salted paper | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/8thhussarscrimea1.htm | ||||||||||||||||||||
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