Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Bucknall Estcourt NPG D36583

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Francis Holl, after George Richmond

Before the Crimea, Estcourt's military career was spent largely on garrison and expeditionary duties. He also sat as MP for Devizes between 1848 and 1852. In spite of having no experience of actual warfare, he was appointed adjutant-general to the Crimean expeditionary force in February 1854. He was one of the officers held by the public to be responsible for the sufferings of the British troops in the first winter in the Crimea but was strongly defended by Lord Raglan. Estcourt himself died of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.