The Battalion Staff 1982
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-35-10

Description

Card-mounted photograph of four officers and eight non-commissioned officers, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, posing for the image with the regimental drums in front of a building, 1982. Most of them are wearing full dress with their scarlet tunics and peaked caps, except for the two Quartermasters who wear cocked hats with a white plume. The Drum Major on the left wears his gold state coat and jockey cap and holds the Drum Major’s mace. The Sgt Pioneer on the right has the traditional beard, white apron and axe of his appointment. Two of the seated officers wear dark blue undress frock coats and peaked caps and hold their swords in their left hands. Drums and two cymbals have been arranged on the ground. Photographed by Marshalls of Camberley. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: ORC/Sgt S Tuck; D/Sgt A Ferneyhough, MBE; AD/Sgt J Morris; Sgt L Starks Front Row: Drum Maj J Evans; RSM M Joyce; Capt (QM) D J Webster; Maj (QM) W R Clarke; Lt Col A A Denison-Smith, MBE; Capt & Adjt E T Bolitho; RQMS N Hancock; Sgt P Bridger From an album of 63 photographs of the Grenadier Guards showing parades, training, Royal inspections and group images, taken in Germany, Cyprus and the UK, 1980-89.