Lot 252
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[Crimean War] Battle of Inkerman - Lt. Col. Hallewelle
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
Annotated watercolour view of part of the site of the Battle of Inkerman by Lt. Col. Hallewelle, entitled "Sketch (from the original in the Quartermaster General's Office by Lt. Col. Hallewell, A.q., M.g.) from left bank of ravine leading to Sand bag Battery, Are embraced, about 135 degrees. For illustration of part of Staff Survey", signed by Col. Hallewelle, 285 x 1350mm., depicting the Ruins of Inkerman with individual salient features identified in ink, framed and glazed
Footnote
Note: Colonel Edmund Gilling Watts Hallewell (April 1822 – 1869), became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General to the Light Division and fought at the Battle of Alma in September 1854, the Battle of Inkermann in November 1854 and at the siege of Sebastopol in the Winter of 1854 during the Crimean War.
He was promoted to brevet major in December 1854, to lieutenant-Colonel in November 1855 and to colonel in November 1860. He went on to be Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in March 1864.