NAM.2017-09-7-18-123

Photograph of three officers and another Grenadier Guardsman, all from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards and the 1st Battalion Irish Guards. They are practising for the Trooping the Colour ceremony in a field at Pirbright Camp, 1912. A few other soldiers can be seen in the distance at the back of the field. The officers are wearing undress frock coats and forage caps. They are named as (from left to right): Lt (Hon) Andrew Edward Somerset Mulholland (standing); Lt Col Charles Fitzclarence VC - both Irish Guards, and Lt Col Lord Ardee - Grenadier Guards. The soldier standing on the right wearing his bearskin cap is from the Grenadier Guards and is holding a flag or Colour. 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.