'Hospital on Heyder [sic] Pacha - Scutari'
Watercolour by Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 1854 (c).
At the start of the Crimean War (1854-1856) the Selimiye Barracks at Scutari was initially used by the British Army as camp for troops en route to the Crimea, but it was soon converted into a temporary military hospital. Unfortunately the new facility did not have the capacity to cope with the huge number of casualties and sick men who arrived. Reports flooded back to Britain about the appalling conditions and this provoked the famous nursing expedition lead by Florence Nightingale.
From an album of watercolours and sketches by Colonel William Markham, 1820 (c) and Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham, 1854 (c).
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1999-02-105-32
Acknowledgement
Purchased with the assistance of the Society of Friends of the National Army Museum.
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1999-02-105-32
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