Floreat Etona!
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Floreat Etona! is an 1882 painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. The title is the motto of Eton College, "may Eton flourish". The painting depicts an incident that took place in 1881, during the
Thompson laingsnek
Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler by Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler
Robert Elwes
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Lieutenant Robert Hamond Elwes was a British Army officer who was killed in action during the First Boer War. As a junior officer in the Grenadier Guards regiment, Elwes fought in the Battle of Laing'
Floreat Etona!
…painting depicts an incident that took place in 1881, during the First Boer War. It is held now in a private collection. The work depicts Lieutenant Robert Elwes of the Grenadier Guards, who was killed at the Battle of Laing's Nek on 28 January 1881. The British Army was attempting to force its way through a…
Portrait of Lieut. R. H. Elwes Wood engraving published in The Illustrated London News, 30 April 1881
His father: Robert Elwes, of Congham, senior, (1819–1878)