NAM.2017-09-7-18-125

Photograph of three officers, one on horseback, from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in a field at Pirbright Camp, 1912. They are practising for the Trooping the Colour ceremony. They are wearing undress frock coats and forage caps with their swords hanging from their sword belts. They are named as (from left to right): Lt (Hon) Francis Edward Needham; Lt the Hon Wilfred Russell Bailey; and Lt Wadham Heathcote Diggle (on his horse ‘Jouvance’). Soldiers can be seen in the background, possibly on the rifle ranges as some are lying down. 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.