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Photograph showing the participants of an Officer Training Corps camp at Mytchett, Aldershot, August 1928. They line up on both sides of a tree-lined road wearing service dress with forage caps and puttees around their lower legs. Down the centre of the road stride a group of officers which includes the Prince of Wales. An officer standing to the side can be seen saluting them. Some vehicles can be seen further down the road. The leading five officers are named as (from left to right): Lt Col E J L Pike; Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII); Lt H R H Davies; Maj W S Pilcher and Capt W M Stourton. From an album of 69 photographs covering the period 1922-1938 - mainly relating to the 2nd and 3rd Battalions Grenadier Guards, taken at camps and events in Aldershot, Windsor, Pirbright, various barracks in London and the Guards Depot in Caterham.