Winners H.B. Senior Cup 1927-28
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-21-11

Description

Photograph showing a Grenadier Guards football team - the winners of the H.B. Seniors Cup, 1927-28. The men pose in their white football kit with two senior non-commissioned officers standing on each side wearing service dress and forage caps, and Lt H R H Davies seated in the centre of the front row wearing a civilian suit. At his feet is a large silver trophy and a football. Trees and a wooden hut can be seen behind them. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: L/Sgt Barker; Gdsn Warren; Gdsn J Smith; L/Sgt Smith; Sgt Munder Middle Row: CSM Parsons MM; Gdsn Wilson; Gdsn Marshall; Gdsn Kershaw; H.R.D.; Gdsn Blair; Gdsn J Marshall; Gdsn Watson Front Row: Gdsn Burgoyne; Gdsn Fylas (?) From an album of 69 photographs covering the period 1922-1938 - mainly relating to the 2nd and 3rd Battalions Grenadier Guards, taken at camps and events in Aldershot, Windsor, Pirbright, various barracks in London and the Guards Depot in Caterham.