NAM.2017-09-7-21-12

Panoramic photograph of No. 2 Company, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Chelsea Barracks, 1928. They pose for the image in five rows in front of a barrack building. The men are wearing their scarlet tunics, white pouch belts and forage caps. The three officers in the middle of the front row are wearing dark blue braided undress frock coats and forage caps. In front of them sit three large plaques, probably sporting trophies. The front row are named as (from left to right): L/Sgt Vine; L/Sgt Woods; Sgt Mansell; CSM Ward MM; Lt H R H Davies; Capt G H Bull; Lt A G W Heber-Percy; CQMS Tingely (?); Sgt Reed; L/Sgt Wetheral; L/Sgt Bantrofe (?); L/Sgt Cooke. 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.