NAM.2017-09-7-18-124

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. Three officers on horseback talk to a group of younger officers wearing undress frock coats and forage caps. The battalions can be seen marching in rows across the practice field behind them, wearing ceremonial dress including their scarlet tunics and bearskin caps. Their rifles are carried on their left shoulders. The officers on horseback are named as (from left to right): Lt Col Charles Fitzclarence VC (Irish Guards); Lt Col Lord Ardee (Grenadier Guards) and Maj George Henry Morris (Irish 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.