Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Bt NPG D7324

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Maclure & Macdonald

Alison entered the army at the age of twenty and was sent immediately to Barbados. He served in Nova Scotia and Malta before seeing active service in the Crimea in 1855. He was mentioned in dispatches and was made brevet major in 1856. Having been posted to India in 1857, Alison was injured at Lucknow, and for several years was invalided out of the service. In 1882 Alison left England to command a force which was assembled at Cyprus to secure the Suez Canal. After... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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