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Title
Item 07: Portrait of an officer of the 50th Regiment said to be a son of Charles Grimes, possibly 1838-1846?
Call number
P2/129
Level of description
item
Date

1838-1846?
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Watercolours
Reference code
893534
Physical Description
1 watercolour - 31.1 x 26.5 cm
Description source

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
General note

Unsigned. Untitled.

The donor, a godchild of Charles Grimes' daughter, stated that the portrait, showing an officer of the 50th Regiment, was one of Grimes' sons, killed in action. Arthur Evelyn Fyles' 'The history of the 50th...', London, Chapman and Hill, 1895, states that Lieutenant Joseph John Grimes fell at Aliwal on 30th January 1846 and Lieutenant Charles Robert Grimes at Sobraon on 10th February, 1846. Charles Robert Grimes was appointed ensign in the 50th Regiment on 16th March 1838. This is the first reference to a Grimes in the 50th Regiment in the Army Lists 1800-1839.
Date note

Undated; dated from information below.
Name
Grimes, Charles Robert, d. 1846
Grimes, John Joseph
Australia. Army. Battalion, 50th
Subject
Adult Males
Topic
army officers

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