Portrait of Lord Raglan, 1854 (c).

Wood engraving from 'The Illustrated London News'.

General (later Field Marshal) Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, First Baron Raglan (1788-1855) served on the Duke of Wellington's staff throughout the Peninsular War (1808-1814), and was with him at Waterloo, where the then Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Fitzroy Somerset lost an arm. He was Military Secretary at Horse Guards 1827-1852, and although he had hopes of succeeding Wellington as commander-in-chief on his longstanding patron's death, the post went to Lord Hardinge instead. As consolation he was raised to the peerage as Baron Raglan and appointed master-general of the Ordnance. In 1854 he was given command of the Army of the East, led it to victory at the battles of Alma and Inkerman but during the winter of 1854-1855 was heavily criticised both by the press and in officers' letters home for the breakdown of supply and the sufferings of the troops. He died on 28 June 1855 shortly after the failure of the first attack on the Redan.

From an album of paintings and sketches (with some paper ephemera) of Colonel (later General Sir) The Hon George Cadogan (1814-1880), 1st (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards; also known as 'Cadogan's Crimea', 1854-1856.