Photographic studio portrait in full length of Colonel OC Hannay wearing full dress comprising a cloak and kilt. He holds a bearskin in his right hand and stands on a rug flanked by furniture. Colonel Hannay is photographed against a painted backdrop.

This is a photograph from an album of portraits of members of the British Army who were killed or died of their wounds during the Second Anglo-Boer War that was fought between Britain and the Independent Boer States of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State between 1899 and 1902.