NAM.2017-09-7-34-1

Group portrait photograph of the Sergeants Mess, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, April 1971. Taken by Marshalls of Camberley. The large group pose outside for the image in five rows mostly wearing their full dress scarlet tunics, white belts and forage caps. Some are in field service dress. Four officers sit in the front row wearing blue undress frock coats and crimson sash belts. The other two officers are wearing full dress scarlet tunics, crimson sash belts and cocked hats. The Drum Major is visible on the left with his mace and elaborately braided tunic. The Pioneer Sgt on the right hand side wears the traditional white apron and carries an axe - he is the only man traditionally allowed to have a beard. Several drums are laid out on display on the grass in front of them. Some small trees behind. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: L/Sgt M Burke; L/Sgt D Andrews; L/Sgt M Parker; L/Sgt C Court; Sgt E Chamberlain; Sgt M Bennett; L/Sgt I Jones; L/Sgt J Jenkinson; L/Sgt J Noakes; L/Sgt R Hatton; L/Sgt B Carlin; L/Sgt P Wheeler Second Row from the back: L/Sgt J Dudley; L/Sgt M Boulton; L/Sgt J Gearing; L/Sgt R Jackson; L/Sgt M Jones; L/Sgt A Sharman; L/Sgt D Hearn; L/Sgt D Holmes; L/Sgt P Smoczyk; L/Sgt W Bradbury; L/Sgt N Askins; L/Sgt J Scott; L/Sgt J Rogers; L/Sgt D Jones; L/Sgt J Evans; L/Sgt M Ley; L/Sgt I Atherton; L/Sgt F Smith; L/Sgt K Andrew; L/Sgt G Hall; L/Sgt R Maaskant Middle Row: L/Sgt K Steward; L/Sgt B Owen; L/Sgt G Hughes; L/Sgt R Kelly; L/Sgt N Wright BEM; L/Sgt M Ryan BEM; Sgt T Orton; Sgt T Marshalll; Sgt M Creamer; Sgt M Collins; Sgt D Todd; Sgt R Johnson; Sgt M Kenny; Sgt W Wilson; Sgt G Nobbs; Sgt A Pykett; L/Sgt F Davis; L/Sgt T Wiltshire; L/Sgt J Mooring; L/Sgt D Boyce; L/Sgt L Higgins; L/Sgt D Smith; K Brown Second Row from the front: Sgt A Davenport; Sgt D Fisher; Sgt C Green; Sgt D Murray; Sgt J Cadman; Sgt J Mundy; C/Sgt C Bradley; C/Sgt P Sharman; C/Sgt D Hooper; C/Sgt P Penny; C/Sgt R Brown; C/Sgt V Young; C/Sgt R Holmes; C/Sgt J Gowers; C/Sgt B Sheen; C/Sgt H Hayes; C/Sgt B Carney; Sgt P Duckett; Sgt A Edmunds; Sgt R Eyden; Sgt R Senior; Sgt J Bower Front Row: Drum Major R Trussler; C/Sgt R Hill; SQMS E Heaton; CSM C Saville; CSM B Hunter; Lt R Woodfield; A/D/Sgt J Torkington; Capt D M Braddell; RQMS E Mitchell; Lt Col P H Hasslett MBE; RSM T R Day; Colonel D W Hargreaves; Supt Clerk B Thompson BEM; Major J P Smiley; D/Sgt B Eastwood; Capt P A Lewis; CSM D Pritty; CSM D Alderman; CSM C Lovell; CSM D Sherlock; Sgt R Slater; C/Sgt B Double; Sgt M Eddy From an album of 20 photographs related to the Grenadier Guards from 1970 to 1979. It consists mainly of group images of officers and other ranks from the 2nd Battalion, in both the UK and Hong Kong.