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Photograph of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards and the 1st Battalion Irish Guards in a field at Pirbright Camp, 1912. They are practising for the Trooping the Colour ceremony. The battalions can be seen marching in rows across the practice field wearing ceremonial dress including their scarlet tunics and bearskin caps. Their rifles, with bayonets attached, are carried on their left shoulders. Several officers in frock coats and forage caps inspect the proceedings. Three are on horseback and are named as (from left to right): Lt Col Charles Fitzclarence VC; Maj George Henry Morris - both Irish Guards, and Lt Col Lord Ardee - Grenadier Guards. 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.