Officers 1st Battalion Irish Guards
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-18-121

Description

Photograph of officers from the 1st Battalion Irish Guards in a field at Pirbright Camp, 1912. They are probably practising for the Trooping the Colour ceremony. The large group of officers are wearing undress frock coats and forage caps with their swords hanging from their sword belts. Three of them appear to be on horseback, including (on the left) Lt Col Charles Fitzclarence VC. 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.