photograph (copy), photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2017-09-7-2-10
Description
Photographic copy of a group of Grenadier Guards having rifle practice at Eastbourne on May 4th 1863. The soldiers are kneeling with their rifles at the ready, wearing their white undress jackets, while the musketry instructor is kneeling at the front right. A bugler is at the far left, and the officers, wearing undress frock coats are standing to the rear. From a photograph album containing 22 copies of images taken by Lt Col Henry William Verschoyle, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. The original photographs were taken between 1860-1864, and consist mainly of group portraits. Grenadier Guards reference number 99.
