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Original – Joseph Numa, John Potter, and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards just after their return from the Crimean War in 1856
Reason
Stumbled across this while checking out a new archive. I think it's a particularly nice bit of ephemera, good enough for Queen Victoria to get a personal negative of the image. This was briefly nominated before, but the discussion was kind of going way, way off topic, so I asked for it to be closed. It's since passed Commons (by rule of the 5th day, no less) albeit after a bit of a levels tweak which probably dealt with some issues that were derailing the last one.
Articles in which this image appears
Coldstream Guards, Facial hair in the military
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator
Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett; restored by Adam Cuerden
In any case, it's an arresting pictorial artifact. Can you imagine engaging in combat wearing one of those crazy bearskin 'hats' – ?? Well, the whole Crimean War was pretty crazy anyway. Sca (talk) 21:36, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Unless you're Chinese, or maybe Jewish? – Sca (talk) 20:35, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
But... the names are on the image if there's any doubt. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.5% of all FPs 01:28, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett - Heroes of the Crimean War - Joseph Numa, John Potter, and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:39, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]