JESSICA ELIZABETH CORRIE (c. 1900)
Miniature Portrait of General William Charles Forest
Oil on ivory, tondo, portrait, 4cm diameter, the entire 9cm
With label verso 'General Forrest, C. B,...

JESSICA ELIZABETH CORRIE (c. 1900)
Miniature Portrait of General William Charles Forest
Oil on ivory, tondo, portrait, 4cm diameter, the entire 9cm
With label verso 'General Forrest, C. B, Uplands, Winchester, 1900, painted by J. E Corrie'

Major William Charles Forrest fought in the infamous Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (1854 56). This event is remembered for a particularly embarrassing military blunder, The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, 1854, in which in the confusion of the British soldiers rushing to support their follow troops brought the wrong gun batteries to replenish the depleted stocks. Major Forrest remarked in the aftermath, I got a crack on the head in one charge but the brass pot stood well, and my head is only slightly bruised.

 

 

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