Chelmsford

Posts : 37 Join date : 2010-07-25

Does anyone have a detailed description of Lord Chelmsford, his physical appearance, personality, and the uniform he would have worn?
Also the same for Redvers Buller and Evelyn Wood?
Thanks

Posts : 420 Join date : 2011-05-14

Horsefixer,

There's a photographer of Henry Evelyn Wood VC on rdvc on [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

He is wearing his campaign kit. 'Indian Pattern' scarlet patrol jacket etc as worn in the Anglo-Zulu War.

Wood was a red head, with blue eyes of about 5'7" in height. As to his personality according to others he could be sulky.

Chelmsford, tall over 6'2" or thereabouts, thin. Tee-total, according to others aloft and standoffish.

Uniform - Staff Officer's pattern jacket; as per most of the photographs of him in South Africa. Brown hair & beard; blue eyes.

Buller, stocky build brown hair & beard. He wore a Norfolk jacket and a wide-awake hat. See the recent query re-90th Light Infantry which is based on a Crealock sketch of Buller.

'Jimu

Posts : 37 Join date : 2010-07-25

Thanks v much kwaJimu, very helpful

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