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Major-General Sir William Fenwick Williams, K.C.B., "The Hero of Kars" - from a photograph by John W Creator: Smyth.

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Major-General Sir William Fenwick Williams, K.C.B., "The Hero of Kars" - from a photograph by John Watkins, Parliament-Street, 1856. British army officer who fought in the Crimean War. 'At the Investiture...at Buckingham Palace, General Williams received the honour of Knighthood of the Bath; the General having been nominated by her Majesty a Knight Companion of the Order, for his bravery at Kars in September last...[The portrait] represents the hero dressed in the uniform of a General of Artillery, and wearing all his orders...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

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27,1Mo (2,5Mo) / 22,1cm x 30,7cm / 2612 x 3625 (300dpi)

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