| Mounted on an album page this image shows Lt. Col. William Geroge Hamley of the Royal Engineers. 2nd Lieutenant - 3 August, 1833 1st Lieutenant - 25 September, 1836 Captain - 1 May, 1845 Lieut. Col. - 10 June, 1856 Harts' Amry List for 1860 does not show Hamley servingwith the rank of Major nor does it show him having served on active service prior to 1860. I believe this is Lt. Col W. G. Hamley who attended to gala opening of the Suez Canal and wrote a series of four articles on the canal under the pseudonym "Scamper" that were published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine under the title A New Sea in an Old Land in 1871. Mounted Photograph 4 1/4 inches by 3 1/4 inches (10.8 cm x 8.9 cm) Unknown Photographer England c. 1859 |
