Marines with drum and rifles - National Maritime Museum 1860

 

Light Division at the Alma

 Thanks to Stephen Tindle who says

Issue No.6 of Military Illustrated featured an article by Michael Barthorp about the British Light Division at the Battle of Alma 1854. I attached the rather comprehensive colour plates that Pierre Turner did for this article

The British army at Scutari by Vittorio Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi (1816-1882) signed and dated 11th May 1854.

 Thanks to Stephen Tindle.

Horsepower Museum has an interesting article

 Here On Saturday 12th September 1840 Lieutenant-Colonel James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, and Captain Harvey Tuckett, both 11th Hussars, stood facing each other on the Wimbledon Common.

Duel on the Wimbledon Common

National Army Museum exhibition

Myth and Reality: Military Art in the Age of Queen Victoria

1 Jul 2025 - 1 Nov 2026

Free!

Our brand new exhibition opens next month. This major exhibition of rarely seen artworks illuminates shifting attitudes towards soldiers and the Army during Queen Victoria’s reign (1837 – 1901).

Discover over 100 inspiring artworks - including paintings, sketchbooks and miniatures - from the National Army Museum's collections, as well as major loans from the Royal Collections Trust and the National Portrait Gallery

Home Again, 1858. Oil on canvas by Henry Nelson O’Neil

More info: https://bit.ly/44hCJ3R

The Bizarre Battle of Bossenden Wood

 Thanks to Stephen Tindle for this. He says

'Over two issues of Military Modelling back in 1986 Ian Knight (with illustrations by Richard Scollins) told the story of the last battle fought on English soil - The Battle of Bossenden Wood 1838'

Charge of the Heavy Brigade

 NAM painting of the battle. Thanks to Siephen Tindle for this. The December 1985 issue of Military Modelling, Read an interesting blogpiece on the Charge here

The 11th Hussars' Recruitment Drive - "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

One of my favourite movies. 

From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968), dir. Tony Richardson.

Soldiers from the 11th Hussars strut with ceremony through an immiserated working-class neighborhood in Victorian London. The merry bandsmen and well-kempt cavalrymen -- dressed in their clean regimentals -- seek to fill the ranks with new recruits from the lowest rungs of English society. The silver-tongued recruiting sergeant woos destitute and cast-aside men with promises of glory, adventure, admiration, fame, fortune, and good company should they choose to enlist in the 11th Regiment of Hussars. He fills his promises with romantic exaggeration to make more appealing the harshness, difficulty, and indignity which would no doubt attend these men upon taking the shilling, and throughout their life in the service. The sorrowful conditions of the neighborhood from which the rank and file of the 11th Hussars is drawn is juxtaposed with a previous scene in which gentry and aristocratic officers from the regiment fete and gather round to inspect Lord Raglan's prim cavalrymen, all with enthusiastic upper-class pomp.

British corporal, 2nd Queen's Foot, China 1860

 

The Highlanders' Farewell Hugh Cameron (1835–1918) The Black Watch Castle & Museum

 

Chobham Camp scene, 1853 | Online Collection | National Army Museum, London

Descrption here
 

1st Btn the Royal Warwickshire 1914-1918 Living history group

 Their main impression is 1914. Facebook page

The Old Contemptibles Keith Simpson (1981)

 Go this book from the Library. It's very good I might get a copy they are cheap on ebay. It's a photographic study of the period August to December 1914. 

 

A Soldier of the 79th Highlanders at Chobham Camp in 1853

by Eugene Louis Lami

GRAND SHAFT BARRACKS BY WILLIAM HEATH 1836

 Details here

British; 14th Light Dragoons, Officers 1828 by William Heath.

 These took part in the Bristol riots of 1831. They were known as the Bloody Blues. Read about these riots here

Also see here

Conduct of the Bristol riots here

There was a children's supernatural series from 1978 called the Clifton House mystery which was based on the riots. Here

 Lucien Rousselot French lancer. The British 23rd Lancers were deployed in riots in Radstock in March 1817. Do you think they would be in cloaks at that time of the year?

Officer and trumpeteer 4th Light Dragoons 1822

 

9th Lancers Royal Lancers 1822

 From here where there is a history of the regiment.

Lancers from Haythornthwaite/Chappell World uniforms and battles