Camp of the 4th (The Queen's Own Light) Dragoons, 1855
Photograph by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Crimean War (1854-1856), 1855.
The regiment was sent to the Crimea in 1854 under the command of a Brevet-Colonel Lord George Paget, who is said to have led it into the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 smoking a cheroot!
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1986-04-46-3
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1986-04-46-3
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