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General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather was a British soldier who entered the army in 1818 as a Cornet in the 7th Dragoon Guards and won two very remarkable victories. Firstly at Meeanee, India, where it was said that 500 British soldiers defeated 35,000 Indians. Secondly at the Battle of Inkerman, 1854, during the Crimean War, where he commanded a division of 3,000 soldiers fighting in the fog who were said to have defeated 35,000 Russians. 'Always undaunted, always kindling with warlike animation, he was a very power in himself.' Even when his radiant countenance could not be seen, there was comfort in the sound of his voice, 'and the "grand old boy's" favourite oaths roaring cheerily down through the smoke'. He was invalided from the Crimea in 1855, and was appointed to command the troops in Malta.
The Royal Hospital Chelsea
London
Title
Field Marshal Sir John Lysaght Pennefather (1798–1872), Governor of the Royal Hospital (1870–1872)
Date
19th C
Medium
oil on board
Measurements
H 45 x W 39 cm
Accession number
416
Work type
Painting
The Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Road, London, Greater London SW3 4SR England
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