Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan NPG D15985

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by W. Joseph Edwards, published by Virtue & Co

Commander of British forces in the Crimean War; entered army aged sixteen and lost right arm at Waterloo; appointed to command British troops against Russia in the Crimea in 1854. He secured victory at the Alma but his lack of experience as a commander in the field was held to blame for later calamities; died of cholera, 28 June 1855, 'the victim of England's unreadiness for war'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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