A fine Album page with large gelatine silver print photograph on one side showing officers of the 2nd Battalion, East Kent Regiment - the Buffs, when stationed at Shaft Barracks at Dover during 1888. All officers being annotated with their names, with veterans of the Perak and Nile Expeditions, along with the Zulu War. The other side has another gelatine print, this showing the the Warrant Officers and Sergeants of the 2nd Battalion during 1882.
Condition: images clean, page showing signs of age and tarnishing, generally Good Condition.
Identified officers include:
Lieutenant Colonel William Frederick Kerr, commanding the battalion, he was a veteran of the Perak Expedition in the Malay Peninsula during 1875 to 1876.
Major Robert Albert Hickson.
Major Julius Batt Backhouse, later a battalion commander and then a Lieutenant General, he was a veteran of the Zulu War in South Africa, having been present in the actions at Inyezane and Gigindhlova. He went on to command the 2nd Battalion during the Boer War of 1899 to 1902.
Captain Douglas Abercromby Hamilton.
Captain Walter Stewart Stewart-Savile.
Captain Edgar Evelyn Ravenhill.
Captain Courtenay Bourchier Vyvyan, a veteran of the Zulu War in South Africa, having been present in the action at Inyezane and the investment of Ekowe.
Captain Corry Langrishe Connellan, a veteran of the Zulu War in South Africa, having been present in the action at Inyezane and the investment of Ekowe.
Captain Alexander McLachlan.
Lieutenant Albert Vickerman.
Lieutenant Allan Molyneux Berkeley Gage.
Lieutenant Edward Charles James Williams, a veteran of the Nile Expedition during 1884 to 1885.
2nd Lieutenant Richard George Armine Marriott.
2nd Lieutenant Harry Francis Sparrow
