National Army Museum

Guards Depot Cross Country Team Winners Household Brigade Cross-Country Championship, 1937-38

photograph, photograph

Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-22-11

Description

Group photograph of the Guards’s Depot Cross-Country Team - winners of the Household Brigade championship, 1937-38. Companies, Grenadier Guards, October 1937. The 15 men post in sports kit, the warrant officers in service dress and the two officers in blue frock coats. Three sporting trophies and an array of medals sit on the ground in front of them. Taken by G and H Bunce, Westway, Caterham. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: L/Sgt H Humphries, (Welsh Guards); L/Cpl W Jackson, (Coldstream Guards); A Smylie, (Irish Guards); Td.S W Bennett, (Irish Guards); L/Cpl R McAlpine, (Irish Guards) Middle Row: Rct J Hoyle, (Irish Guards); L/Sgt B Hillier, (Welsh Guards); L/Cpl J M Tinkler, (Coldstream Guards); Sgt W Shanahan, (Irish Guards); Td.S B Elliott, (Grenadier Guards); J Bignell, (Grenadier Guards); Rct L Skinner, (Scots Guards); L/Cpl J Biggenden, (Grenadier Guards) Front Row: L/Sgt F Clarke, (Coldstream Guards); RSM W J Dorman, (Scots Guards); Major Arnold de Lérisson Cazenove MVO, (Coldstream Guards - Commandant); Lt Dennis Henry FitzGerald, (Irish Guards); CSM P Murphy, (Irish Guards); L/Sgt L Simpson, (Irish Guards). From an album of 29 photographs compiled by or presented to Sgt J Biggenden. It covers the period 1927-1951 and includes mainly group images taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham, plus some inspections such as by HM The Queen at Windsor Castle.

Units

Grenadier Guards, (1877-)

People

Dennis Henry FitzGerald, (1911 - 2003)

Cazenove, Arnold de Lérisson

Bunce, George and Herbert

Dimensions

Width: 375 mm Text: 298 mm

Inscriptions

Guards Depot Cross Country Team Winners Household Brigade C.C. Championship, 1937-38 G & H Bunce Westway, Caterham L/Sgt H Humphries, W.G.; L/Cpl W Jackson, C.G.; A Smylie, I.G.; Td.S W Bennett, I.G.; L/Cpl R McAlpine, I.G.; Rct J Hoyle, I.G.; L/Sgt B Hillier, W.G.; L/Cpl J M Tinkler, C.G.; Sgt W Shanahan, I.G.; Td.S B Elliott, G.G.; J Bignell, G.G.; Rct L Skinner, S.G.; L/Cpl J Biggenden, G.G. L/Sgt F Clarke, C.G.; RSM W J Dorman, S.G.; Major A de L’ Cazenove MVO, C.G. (Commandant); Lt D H Fitzgerald, I.G.; CSM P Murphy, I.G.; L/Sgt L Simpson, I.G.