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JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)

Cemetery

1855-1856

Salted paper print | 23.1 x 28.6 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500773

Photograph of a British cemetery near Sevastopol. The gravestones, of different shapes and sizes, are arranged in a group with most of the inscriptions clearly visible. There is a wooden barrel and a tin box on the ground and a stone wall behind the graves. Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the British created a number of cemeteries on the sites where regiments had camped during the Siege of Sevastopol.

Creator(s)

James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)

Subject(s)

Dickson, William F., Major (d.1855, Crimea)

Forster, John Burton, Capt. (d.1855, Crimea)

Harrison, Gustavus Nicolls, Bt.Major (d.1855, Crimea)

James Bullen Dennis, Lt (d1855, Crimea)

Curtois, George Charles Widdrington, Lt. (d.1855, Crimea)

Major Stephen Remnant Chapman (d. 1855)

John Francis O'Leary (d. 1855)

Army-GB-Infantry-62nd (The Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot (1782-1881)

Army-GB-Infantry-63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot (1782-1881)

Army-GB-Infantry-1st (the Royal) Regiment (1822-1872)

Army-GB-Infantry-3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot (The Buffs) (1783-1881)

Army-GB-Infantry-2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot (1848-1881)

Army-GB-Infantry-20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot (1783-1881)

Army-GB-Infantry-68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) (1782-1881)

Tyler, Lennard Barrett, Col. (d.1855, Crimea)

White, George Johnstone, Lt. (d.1855, Crimea)

Captain Robert Allan Cox (d. 1855)

Blakiston, Lawrence, Lt. (d.1855, Crimea)

Fraser, Adrian William, Capt. (d.1855, Crimea)

Muller, Bingham Henry Edward, Lt. (d.1855, Crimea)

Shearman, Robert Ambrose, Lt-Col. (d.1855, Crimea)
23.1 x 28.6 cm (image) (image)

31.7 x 37.3 cm (mount)
Cemetery [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
From the collection of Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
  Town planning, landscapes and gardens
  Cemeteries
  Architecture
  Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
  Funerary architecture
- Social sciences
  Military affairs
  Wars, Campaigns & Battles
  Wars
  Wars of the nineteenth century
  Crimean War (1853-1856)
  Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
  Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-55 (Crimean War)
- Places
  Europe
  Ukraine
  Crimea
  Sevastopol [Crimea]
  The Redan [Sevastopol]
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Cemetery

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