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England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland
Ladies and Gentlemen - The Queen!

Her Majesty Victoria,

by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India.

1887

The Royal Family

Edward, Prince of Wales

Later Edward VII

(1841-1910)

Arthur

Duke of Connaught

(1850-1942)

Albert Victor

Duke of Clarence

(1864-1892)

George, Duke of York

Later George V

(1865-1936)

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Leopold

Duke of Albany

(1853-1884)

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Alfred

Duke of Edinburgh

(1844-1900)

Victoria's Prime Ministers
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PM Disraeli.png
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John Russell

1861

Benjamin Disraeli

1878

William Ewart Gladstone

c 1890

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

c 1877

The Regulars - Officers & Other Ranks

Private

Prince Albert's

(Somersetshire) Light Infantry

c 1900

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Trooper

7th (Queen's Own) Hussars

c 1900

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Sergeant

Loftus Swift Williams

The Rifle Brigade

1912

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Trooper

14th Hussars

c. 1900s

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Colour Sergeant

Thomas Greenwood

Coldstream Guards

1900s

Colour Sergeant

F. E. Miles

Coldstream Guards

1900s

2nd Lieutenant

Hylbert John Birkbeck
1st West India Regiment
&
Border Scouts
1899

British Officer
Hand Tinted
Carte de Visite
c. 1875

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Mounted Infantryman
The Green Howards
The Princess of
Yorkshire Regiment
c. 1900s

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Private
77th Regiment of Foot
c. 1880

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Major-General

Sir Herbert Stewart
c. 1881

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Driver
Army Service Corps
and
Family
c. 1900

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Sergeant
Royal Engineers
c. 1890

Lieutenant

Henry Raymond Portal
2/the Gloucestershire Regiment
September 1885

Lieutenant
Francis Michael

Goold-Adams
Royal Artillery
c. 1881

Lieutenant

Coldstream Guards
c. 1885

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Captain

Wilfrid Arthur Hebden
1/the Essex Regiment
1899

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Subaltern
64th Regiment of Foot
c. 1860

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Captain

Godfrey Baldwin
19th Regiment of Foot

(The Green Howards)

1873

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No. 1977

Private James C. Weeks
1/22nd Regiment of Foot
1872

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Colour Sergeant
James Hames
11th Foot/the Devonshire Regiment and Family

c. 1882

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Private

John Harvey
2/the Northamptonshire Regiment
c. 1900

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Gentleman at Arms

Lieutenant-Colonel
Arthur Allen Owen
88th Regiment of Foot
1911

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Staff Sergeant
2/the Gordon Highlanders
c. 1880s

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General

Sir William Gatacre
c. 1898

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Saddler Sergeant

Army Service Corps
and
Family
c. 1885

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Private
1/South Wales Borderers

and Female Relation
c 1900s

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Author/Poet

Rudyard Kipling

Cabinet Photograph

&

Autograph Laid Down on Typed Note

1880s

Reporter/War Correspondent

Archibald Forbes

Cabinet Photograph

&

Autographed Note

1880s

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Field Marshal

Frederick Sleigh Roberts, VC

Signed Cabinet Photograph

&

Autographed Envelope

1870s-1890s

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General

Redvers Buller, VC

Cabinet Photograph

&

Cut Signature Autograph

c. 1900

General

Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien

Cabinet Photograph

&

Autographed Note

c. 1900s

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General

Sir William Lockhart
c. 1895

Lieutenant-General

Sir Drury Curzon Drury Lowe
c. 1885

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Major-General

Sir Hector MacDonald
c. 1899

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Field-Marshal

Lord Garnet Wolseley
c. 1885

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Colonel

Frederick Burnaby

The Royal Horse Guards (the Blues)

1880s

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Lieutenant-Colonel

William Francis Butler

69th Regiment of Foot

c. 1880

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Seaman Gunner
Henry Stephen Walker
Royal Navy
and
Private

Frederick Thomas Walker
7th Hussars

c. 1900

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Surgeon

Philip MacKay Ellis

Army Medical Department

1878

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Lieutenant-Colonel

(Later Field-Marshal)

Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, VC

90th Light Infantry

Woodburtype

&

Cut Signature Autograph

c. 1880

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Admiral

Archibald Berkeley Milne

"Arky-Barky"

Real Photo Postcard
&

Cut Signature Autograph
c. 1918

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Colonel

(Later Field Marshal)

Robert Napier

1st Baron Napier of Magdala

Carte de Visite

&

Autographed Slip

c. 1860

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Colonel

Charles George Gordon

"Chinese Gordon"

Cabinet Photograph
&

Cut Signature Autograph
c. 1882

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Wheeler
Lewis Tizard
Royal Engineers
c. 1885

Staff Sergeant
Charles William Bamford
Army Service Corps
16 October, 1890

Sergeant
Army Service Corps
c. 1890

Sergeant Instructor of Signaling

James Anderson
1/Royal Highlanders

(the Black Watch)
c. 1892

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Sergeant
Thomas Francis Connolly
1/Royal Irish Regiment
1900s

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Corporal

17th Lancers

and

Brother

c. 1903

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Gunner

Royal Artillery

&

Twin Sister

1890s

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Lieutenant

Francis Honorius Sisson Sitwell
63rd Regiment of Foot

Durham Light Infantry
c. 1880s

Kidnapped by the I. R. A.

On 26 June 1920 Colonel Bertram William Young Danford, General Henry Tyndall Lucas, and a Colonel named Tyrrell were off to enjoy what they thought would be a quiet day of salmon fishing not far from the British military barracks at Fermoy, Ireland.   

 

  Although accounts differ a bit in the details, the three British officers were waylaid by four members of the Irish Republican Army - Liam Lynch, George Power, Sean Moylan, and Patrick Clancy. Although all three of the officers were veterans of the recently ended World War being outnumbered and surrounded, they saw the better part of valor and surrendered the revolvers they habitually carried to the Irish Republicans. An account of the kidnapping and its immediate aftermath appeared in the 28  June 1920 edition of The Times

“The raiders, who arrived in two motorcars, took possession of General Lucas’s car and set off with their prisoners in the direction of Cork. Soon afterwards Colonel Danford made a courageous but unsuccessful attempt to escape.

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2nd Lieutenant
Bertram William Young Danford

Royal Engineers
c. 1894

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Sergeant
Royal Artillery
1900s

Driver

Royal Horse Artillery
1890s

Mounted Officer

Ireland
c. 1900

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Bugler
Mounted Infantry
c. 1890

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Private
38th (North Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
c. 1870s

Guardsman
Scots Guards
c. 1890s

Private
Devonshire Regiment
1890s

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Gunner
Edward William Dove Freeman
Royal Artillery
9 March 1868

Trooper

Frederick James Hunt

2nd Life Guards

c. 1897

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Corporal
85th Regiment of Foot
1881

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Lieutenant
John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld
2/the Gordon Highlanders
Cabinet Photograph
November 1899

Sergeant Albert Edward Curtis, VC

2/the East Surrey Regiment


Woking, Surrey, England


c. 1901

For Conspicuous Gallantry

No. 4675 Albert Edward Curtis was a 34-year-old private in the 2nd Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, during the Anglo-Boer War when the following deed took place at Onderbank Spruit for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Curtis’ VC citation appeared in the 15 January 1901 edition of the London Gazette and reads as follows:

On the 23rd February, 1900, Colonel Harris lay all day long in a perfectly open space under close fire of a Boer breastwork. The Boers fired all day at any man who moved, and Colonel Harris was wounded eight or nine times. Private Curtis, after several attempts succeeded in reaching the Colonel, bound his wounded arm, and gave him his flask — all under heavy fire. He then tried to carry him away, but was unable, on which he called for assistance, and Private Morton came out at once. Fearing that the men would be killed; Colonel Harris told them to leave him, but they declined, and after trying to carry the Colonel on their rifles, they made a chair with their hands, and so carried him out of fire.

Curtis would also be entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with the clasps Orange Free State, Transvaal, Relief of Ladysmith, Tugela Heights, Laing’s Nek and Natal. He was additionally entitled to the King’s South Africa Medal with its South Africa – 1901 and South Africa – 1902 clasps.

The Volunteers, Militia, Yeomanry, Etc.
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Captain
Richard Clay
3rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers
c. 1885

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Trooper
Sussex Imperial Yeomanry
c. 1900s

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Lieutenant

Rupert Wilkin
13th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers
c. 1888

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Lieutenant Colonel
Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
c. 1880

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Captain
Henry Allan Roughton May
20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers

(Artist Rifles)
c. 1890s

Lieutenant
Charles John Linder Pott
20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers

"Artist Rifles"
c. 1890s

Naval Reservist

Outfitted for Shore Duty

c. 1880

Signaler
Arthur Edmund Lewis Jones
No 4 University Co.
Queen's City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers
1898

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"Bert and Winnie"

Corporal

Imperial Yeomanry

& Uniformed Wife

c. 1900

Acting Sergeant Major
Patrick Riordan, DCM
Duke of Cornwall's Rifle Volunteers
c. 1890s

Chaplain of Volunteer Forces
c. 1900

Colour Sergeant
Henry J. B. Paish
19th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers
c. 1890s

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Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel) R. E. Martin
C.M.G., T.D. D.L.
5th Battalion, the Leicestershire Regiment
c. 1900s

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Rifleman
20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers

(Artist Rifles)
c. 1880s

Henry Grenfell Thornton
1st Nottinghamshire (Robin Hood) Rifle Volunteers
Imperial Yeomanry
1901

Corporal
Queen's Own Regiment of Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry
c. 1870

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Cadet (Four Views)
Harrow Rifle Corps
c. 1900s

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Watercolour Sketch of Volunteers
J. Walter Richards
7 August 1907

"Rifle Practice"
Photographic Reproduction
of
Amateur Military Artwork
c. 1865

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Memorial Card

Regimental Sergeant Major
Edward Brown, Jr,
Hampshire Carabiniers, Imperial Yeomanry
November, 1902

Sergeant
South African Light Horse
c. 1902

Cadet Rifleman
City of London Rifles
c.1905

Cadet
Queen's University (Belfast)
Officers' Training Corps?
c. 1905

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Private

John Stead

Royal Home Counties

Reserve Regiment

c. 1900

Volunteer Rifleman

&

Wife

c. 1900s

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James Booth Clarkson

Royal Merchant Navy

3/the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

President, Placer County, California, Citrus Colony

Natal Medical Corps

Australian Army Medical Corps

Late 1800s

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Trumpeter
Henry Hollington Sawyer
Honourable Artillery Company
City Imperial Volunteers
1899

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Gunner
Ernest Charleton
Honourable Artillery Company
City Imperial Volunteers
1899

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Mr. Coulthard
Honourable Artillery Company
City Imperial Volunteers
1899

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Military Cyclist
Volunteer Battalion
The Cheshire Regiment
c. 1900

Volunteer

Rifleman/Cyclist
c. 1900

Rifleman

Cyclist
c. 1890

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Ambulanceman

Tom Rowan

St John Ambulance Brigade

c. 1900

Ambulanceman

Luke Suthers

St John Ambulance Brigade

c. 1900

Ambulanceman

St John Ambulance Brigade

c. 1900

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Gunner

1st Essex Artillery Volunteers
with
Father and Grandfather
c 1900s

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Lieutenant
William Davidson Adam
1st Caithness Artillery Volunteers
c. 1885

Lieutenant Colonel
Sir Peter Redford Scott Lang, VD
1st Fifeshire Royal Garrison Artillery
c. 1898

Sergeant
David Hodge Muir
Edinburgh Artillery Volunteers
c. 1903

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Colour Sergeant
8th Battalion
The Kings Liverpool Regiment
"Liverpool Scottish"
c. 1900s

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Rifleman
London Scottish Rifle Volunteer Corps
c. 1865

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Sergeant
14th Battalion, County of London Regiment, t
"London Scottish"

c. 1905

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Drummer

R H. Simmonds
7th Middlesex

(London Scottish)

Volunteer Rifle Corps
c. 1880s

Let Fly the Arrows...

Identified on the cabinet card’s reverse side as Kenneth Neal Monro, the subject wears the distinctive regalia of the Royal Company of Archers.

The company was established as early as 1672 an was granted a charter by Queen Anne in 1713. Today the company acts as a ceremonial royal bodyguard to the reigning British monarch during visits to Scotland.

Although this archer is clearly identified as Kenneth Neal Monro, no additional information specifically linking to the company have been found so far.

Our subject may be the Kenneth Neal Monro who was born a Paddington, Middlesex, England on 20 July 1879 to Robert Webber Monro and Frances Mary Davidson. The elder Monro was a onetime cricketeer at Oxford and later the chief clerk to the Parliament Office in the House of Lords (1901–1903).

Educated at Harrow, Kenneth established himself as a civil engineer and contractor. His brother Lieutenant Charles Gordon Monro was killed in action at Elandslaagte in 1899 during the Anglo-Boer War.

During the Great War, Monro would serve with the Royal Engineers. He was promoted temporary captain from a lieutenancy on 27 January 1915, and then acting major on 8 November 1917. He left the service in January 1919 with the permanent rank of major.

Kenneth Neal Monro

Royal Company of Archers

Royal Engineers


Sterling, Scotland


c. 1900s

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