'Varna Bay & Camp from the hills to the north. 2nd June 1854 Capt Forman & myself in the foreground, also the dog 'Jack' and my bay horse 'Monkey'

Watercolour by 2nd Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 1854 (c).

Captain Edward Rowland Forman was first commissioned in 1842 and served with the 88th Regiment of Foot before transfering into the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade in January 1853. He was killed in the Crimea during the attack on the Redan at Sevastopol on 18 June 1855.

From an album of watercolour paintings and sketches by Colonel William Markham, 1820 (c) and Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham, 1854 (c).

Purchased with the assistance of the Society of Friends of the National Army Museum.