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Warrant Officers, Staff and Pay Sergeants, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, South Africa, 1899
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-74-11

Description

Photograph of the Warrant Officers, Staff and Pay Sergeants, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, South Africa, 1899. The 17 men post for the image in front of tents and equipment in a camp during the Boer War. They are wearing khaki drill uniform and pith helmets. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Drill Sgt J H Skidmore 4th Row: C/Sgt A Copeland; Sgt W Tomlinson; Pay Master Sgt J Jones 3rd Row: C/Sgt J McKelvey; QMS F Spearing; Sgt Instructor in Musketry A Yorke 2nd Row: C/Sgt G Elliott; Sgt Maj W J Cook; Lt & QM James May; Pioneer Sgt W Smith; Orderly Room Sgt F Acock Front Row: Dm/Maj W Hammond; C/Sgt H V Goodman; C/Sgt E M Garraway; Armourer Sgt C Warren; C/Sgt H Coppin (with a dog in his lap). From an album of 27 photographs entitled: ‘3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. Sergeants Mess’, 1898-1922. Most are images taken in Chelsea Barracks, Wellington Barracks and the Tower of London, with some taken in South Africa.

Campaigns

Boer War (1899-1902)