photograph / Monaghan Militia, 1866
121st Monaghan Militia photograph c.1866. Handcoloured and with manuscript list of people portrayed including Captain Adjutant Harrison mounted on a white horse. Oval windowed photograph 23 x 17 cm, mounted on 35 x 27 1/2 cm. card. Manuscript label of date and identification affixed to wooden backing. (Both had been in a glazed frame).
Reading from left to right -
Top Row, Standing
1. Drummer Duffy, 2. Sergeant Atkinson, 3. Sergeant Dorrington, 4. Colour Sergeant Comiskey, 5. Sergeant Harrell, 6. Sergeant Tracey, 7. Sergeant Lilburn, 8. Sergeant Casey, 9. Colour Sergeant Smith, 10. Quarter Master Sergeant Walls
Middle Row, Kneeling
1. Drum Major Duffy, 2. Colour Sergeant Jackson, 3. Sergeant Robinson, 4. Sergeant Pritchard
Bottom Row, Sitting
1. Drummer Farrelly, 2. Drummer Duffy, 3. Drummer Sherry, 4. Musketry Instructor Sergeant McKinley
5. Sergeant Major Dodd, 6. Orderly Room Sergeant Hanna, 7. Colour Sergeant Joy, 8. Colour Sergeant Bryans
9. Orderly Room Sergeant Boyle, 10. Drummer Corporal Baxter, 11. Drummer Hall
Mounted -
Captain and Adjutant Henderson, Coppog Lodge, Monaghan
Quarter Master Watson, Gallanagh House, Monaghan;
Monaghan Militia, 1866
Object Number:
HA:1978.24
Institution:
NMI
Date:
1866
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Place of production:
Ireland
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