Coldstream Gallery

Three Coldstream Guards -- Crimean Braves

Three Coldstream Guards posing in uniform, with their weapons, in a photograph entitled Crimean Braves. The men are Joseph Numa, John Potter and James Deal. This is one of a series of photographs of soldiers taken for Queen Victoria in the summer of 1856, on the men's return to England from the Crimean War. The Queen wanted the photographs to be taken as soon as possible, before the men shaved off their beards or otherwise changed their warlike appearance!

© Mary Evans Picture Library / Grayhams Collection

Fourth Guards Brigade in Great War Deeds, WW1

The Fourth Guards Brigade, including the Coldstream Guards, fighting the Germans in the narrow streets of Landrecies during the retreat from Mons. Reproduction of a painting by R Caton Woodville in Great War Deeds, a special panorama supplement produced by the Illustrated London News in 1915, featuring heroic actions of the First World War. Date: 1914

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Captain Wilkinson reading The Tatler

Major Sir Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, KCVO (26 October 186922 December 1940), British officer of arms (Ulster King-at-Arms), British Army officer, author and a dollhouse designer. He was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1890 and promoted Captain in 1899. He served in the Second Boer War and retired in 1907, although he returned to service in the First World War as a staff officer. He was promoted Major in 1915. Pictured here in uniform reading The Tatler. Date: 1916

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans