Dating from sometime in the late 1860s or very early 1870s this unmarked carte de visite shows a Assistant Instructor in Gunnery of the Royal Artillery with his wife and young son. His chevrons are those of a sergeant major with four chevrons point downward on lower cuff surmounted by a wheeled cannon and crown but with the addition of an additional badge on top of the chevrons consisting bursting bomb at the lower point of the chevrons with two crossed cannons on the chevrons themselves surmounted by another crown. This was definitely one of the more complex rank badges worn in the British Army at the time. Carte de Visite Unknown Photographer Unknown Location c. 1870 |