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Fine Art Sale Lot 539

CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. THREE RARE CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS OF PTE JOHN FORD OF THE 4TH LIGHT DRAGO

CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. THREE RARE CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS OF PTE JOHN FORD OF THE 4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1909, WHO RODE INTO THE 'VALLEY OF DEATH' AT BALACLAVA, 25 OCTOBER 1854 in 4th Hussars uniform and probably photographed contemporaneously with his reciting Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade at the Colchester Hippodrome, albumen prints laid on card with embossed photographer's credit J J Avery London, c1880Private John (a.k.a. James) Ford (1833-1911)

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