Officers of the Black Watch, in the Crimea

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Photograph of Captain Charles Campbell Graham and Captain Sir John Chetham McLeod of the 42nd Regiment of Foot, also known as The Black Watch.

Captain Graham retired from the Army in 1857, while Captain McLeod's career continued through the Ashanti War and Ceylon, until he retired on half-pay in 1892. He became Colonel of the Black Watch in 1907 and died in 1914.

Roger Fenton took up to 360 photographs during the Crimean War. Before the work of men like Fenton, the public at home had to rely on written descriptions or rare artists' impressions for images of individuals fighting the war.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-276-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1951.50
• Date: 1856
  
• Material: Paper
  Photograph
  
• Dimensions: 161 mm H x 114 mm W
  
• What: Photograph
  
• Subject: Photographs
  
• Who: 42nd Regiment of Foot (British land forces)
  Captain Charles Campbell Graham
  Captain Sir John Chetham McLeod
  Roger Fenton (photographer)
  
• Where:
• Event:
• Description: 42nd Regiment of Foot - Photograph of Captains Graham and McLeod in the Crimea, by Roger Fenton.
  
• References:
  • Hannavy, John Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall London: Gordon Fraser, 1975 
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
  • Wood, Stephen The Scottish soldier. Manchester: Archive Publications in association with the National Museums of Scotland, 1987 
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