NAM.2017-09-7-18-117

Photograph of five officers, one on horseback, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, in a field at Pirbright Camp, 1912. The battalion is practising for the Trooping the Colour ceremony. They are wearing frock coats and forage caps with white gloves. Four of them have their swords hanging from their sword belts. Standing behind the officer on horseback are (from left to right): 2/Lt Frederic William Joseph Macdonald Miller; Lt George Everard Hope; 2/Lt Michael George Stocks and Lovett. From an album of 212 photographs (including archives) compiled by or presented to Lt Col Wadham Heathcote Diggle, 1910-1912 (c). It includes many portraits, group portraits and other images, many taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham and Pirbright, plus images of parades, sports, dogs and horses.