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Cundall & Howlett 
Three Soldiers of the Coldstream Guards 
1856 
  
Salted paper print 
23.4 x 18.7 cm (image) 
  
The Royal Collection 
RCIN 2500203 
  
 
LL/91134 
  
Photograph of three soldiers from the Coldstream Guards who served in the Crimean War. From left to right are Joseph Numa, John Potter and James Deal. Potter is sitting on a wooden table wearing a bearskin hat and with a rucksack on his knee. Numa and Deal are both resting one leg on the table and are each holding a rifle. All three are wearing the uniform of their regiment with a medal.
 
Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return from the Crimea she met a number of the veterans at Buckingham Palace, Chatham Military Hospital and Aldershot Garrison. Following these meetings she commissioned a series of photographs of the veterans from the photographers Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett. 
 

 
  
 
  
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