Men of the Scots Fusilier Guards, after the Crimean War

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Photograph from Queen Victoria's photo album of wounded soldiers of the Scots Fusilier Guards. The soldiers were convalescing in England following wounds sustained during service in the Crimean War (1854-56).

The central figure displays the distinctive arm badges of his rank of Colour-Sergeant.

Queen Victoria was an enthusiastic patron of the art of photography, the popularity and success of which in Britain owed a great deal to royal encouragement.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-270-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1951.28
• Date: 1856
  
• Material: Paper
  Photograph
  
• Dimensions: 90 mm H x 131 mm W
  
• What: Photograph
  
• Subject: Photographs
  
• Who: Queen Victoria
  Scots Fusilier Guards (British land forces)
  
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• Description: Scots Fusilier Guards - Photograph, copy from Queen Victoria's photo album, of wounded soldiers of the regiment.
  
• References:
  • 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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