CABINET PHOTOGRAPH ROYAL ARTILLERY OFFICER MAJOR CHARLES HOLLAND KIA AUGUST 1914
Item History & Price
A superb Cabinet Photograph of a Royal Artillery Officer taken 1895together with newspaper cuttings recording his death in service in WW1found in a family archive
The subject is Major Charles Stewart Holland, killed in action in Belgium 23 August 1914, and regarded by military historians as the first British artillery officer killed in the Great War - various websites have his details and a sample is shown in the listing for information only
The photograph was prob...ably taken at the time of his commission in 1895 He served in the Boer War and was promoted to Major in 1912
See photographs for full details of condition - generally good, a few marks to the card edges, there is a small mark (splash) to the top edge of the photograph
