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Photograph of three Grenadier Guards officers in a field, 1894 (c). Two are facing each other on horseback: Col Lord Arthur Charles Wellesley (left) and Lt Henry Heywood Heywood-Lonsdale (right). Standing between the two horses with his back to the camera is 2/Lt Gerald Frederick Trotter. The officers on horseback have visible swords and sabretaches (abolished in 1902) hanging from their waistbelts. Image taken by F.G.O. Stuart. From an album of 77 photographs (including some archives and postcards) relating to the Grenadier Guards, 1894-1909 (c). Includes training at Frensham Camp, boxing matches, orders for King Edward VII’s Coronation and images from Staff College 1909, including a trip to the Franco-Prussian War battlefields in France.