He also photographed the landscape - his most famous image was of the area near to where the Charge of the Light Brigade took place. In letters home soldiers had called the original valley "The Valley of Death", so when in September 1855 Thomas Agnew put the picture on show as one of a series of eleven collectively titled Panorama of the Plateau of Sebastopol in Eleven Parts in a London exhibition, he took the troops' epithet, expanded it as The Valley of the Shadow of Death and assigned it to the piece.[7][8]
I know absolutely nothing about the Crimean war. Seems like I should have come across it someplace in my education or travels - especially when I was in Turkey. WW1 yes - but nothing before that.
