Henry Warre

Military career Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Warre was commissioned into the 54th Regiment of Foot in 1837. He became aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Downes Jackson, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America in 1839.

Subsequently, in 1845 he was sent on a military reconnaissance mission, riding through the Rockies, with Mervin Vavasour to the Oregon Country to prepare for a potential Anglo-American war over the territory. A self portrait, his hut in the Crimea, before Sebastopol, July 1855. Camp before Fort Kinburn, Dnieper River, from the Cemetery - 26 October 1855. 9 days after the battle. He served throughout the Crimean War, October 1853 to February 1856. Warre commanded the 57th Regiment of Foot in the Crimean War in 1855.

He became Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1878 and served in that role during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, going to the support of Sir Donald Stewart, holding the line of march from the Indus to Kandahar, enabled him to relieve Kabul. He retired in 1881. He was awarded the K.C.B. on 29 May 1886.

Warre was also a talented artist and published two books of sketches from his journeys: Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory (1848) and Sketches in the Crimea (1856).

The National Library of New Zealand has an extensive collection of 149 of his sketches covering the Crimean War, Europe, the United States, New Zealand, and some European items.