NAM.2001-07-670-1

‘Warrant Officers, Staff Sergeants & Sergeants, 2nd Battalion “The Buffs” (East Kent Regiment), Dover, 1903’, Kent, 1903. Mounted photograph by Fontain, Chart Road, Folkestone, Kent, 1903. Group photograph of non-commissioned officers of the 2nd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment), named as follows. Rear row (left to right): Staff Sergeant Cantwell, Sergeants Marchant, Isard, Neely, Jeffrey, George, Brady and Tapsell. Fifth row (left to right): Sergeants Bazeley, Dine, Kelly, Price, James and Stirke, Staff Sergeant Andrews, and Sergeant Johnson. Fourth row (left to right): Staff Sergeant Dray, Sergeants Read, Pearson, Ingram, Bowles, Perry, Twort, Port, Dixon, Laing, Catchpole and Chambers. Third row (left to right): Sergeants Merchant and Dillon, Colour Sergeants Linwood, Grover, Kesby, Cornwall and Berryman, Sergeant Hall, Colour Sergeant Rylot, Sergeants Horn and Earl, and Band Sergeant Hurst. Second row (left to right): Sergeants Ralph and Port, Colour Sergeant Birrell, Sergeant Major Barton, Captain and Adjutant Mairis (Distinguished Service Order), Lieutenant-Colonel (later Colonel) Backhouse (Companion of the Bath), Quartermaster Stainforth, Bandmaster Hewitt, Quartermaster Sergeants Foster and Smith, SIM Baker Front row, crossed legged, on the floor (left to right): Sergeants Gardner, Coveney, A Dillon, Walsh, Johncock and Philpott. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.