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Cartes de Visite. An albumen print carte de visite of Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn VC, c.1864, full length and standing in uniform with cap of 33rd Foot tucked under one arm, wearing two medals, some spotting, plain card back, presented in an embossed leather desk frame, stand partly broken, together with a hand-coloured carte de visite of a Hungarian hussar, full length and standing, some spotting, printed paper label of the Hungarian photographer Abrahamovits Ferenc pasted to card mount verso, worn leather half case with gilt-embossed studio name of Mayall to base, plus 2 ninth-plate cartes de visite, one of a seated British officer, slightly cracked and scratched in lower corners, leather half case, the other identified in contemporary ink manuscript to lower mount and paper seal verso as Don Theodosio Noeli y White, a major with the Spanish Artillery at Fernando Po [West Africa] in 1862, gilt case, plus a half-length portrait of a young man in a suit [Thomas Sweetingham, c.1881-1902, 1st Tower Hamlet Rifles and No. D100 City Imperial Volunteers], gelatin silver print, creased and split, 9 x 6 cm, laid down and window-mounted in a small leather carte-de-visite desk frame, all glazed, plus A hand-painted salt print of a British Naval Officer, c.1840s, three-quarter length and standing, hand-coloured in gilt, silver, red and blue against a brown ground, wearing Naval Long Service medal and possibly St Jean d’Acre medal, contemporary manuscript colour details to card verso and possibly with the sitter’s name trimmed at head (?’Admiral Harvey’), 10.5 x 8.5 cm, contemporary blind-stamped morocco case with gilt clasp, glass loose (Qty: 6) Alexander Roberts Dunn VC (1833–1868) was the first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross. He was born in York (later Toronto) in 1833, and in 1852 he purchased a commission in the Hussars. Dunn was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 when he was 21 years of age and serving in the 11th Hussars. Dunn rescued a sergeant by cutting down two or three Russian lancers who had attacked from the rear. Later in the battle he killed another Russian who had been attacking a private. He sold his commission at the end of the Crimean War but rejoined the Army in 1858 as a major in the 100th Regiment of Foot. He exchanged into the 33rd Regiment of Foot in 1864, in which regiment he remained until his death in the Abyssinian War.