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Photograph captioned: ‘No. 5 Coy Running Team Winners. The Red Roses’, showing five soldiers from No 5 Company, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, posing for the image with two others in uniform in front of a building. The image, taken in Morocco or Gibraltar, 1899, shows the five members of the winning running team posing with their shield trophy wearing T-shirts with red roses on the front. Others can be seen watching them in the background. The runners are named as: Pte F Lugg; Pte W Day; Pte E Hawker; Pte C Hudson and Pte J Goodridge. Lt Arthur St Leger Glyn stands on the left and Colour Sgt A L Jenkins stands on the right. From an album of 89 photographs related to the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in Gibraltar and Morocco, 1899. Mainly images showing other ranks group portraits, sports teams, marching, rifle drill.