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Group photograph of the Brigade Staff at Pirbright Camp, Surrey, 1895. Fifteen of the men appear to be Senior Non-Commissioned Officers from the Grenadier Guards and the Scots Guards, with 2/Lt Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne sitting in the front row (third from the right) wearing his blue undress patrol jacket and field service cap. Next to 2/Lt Gascoigne (front row, third from the left) is QMS G Payne, Scots Guards. On Gascoigne’s other side (front row, second from the right) is Sergeant Instructor of Musketry A Yorke, and sitting on the ground is Sgt Dudson. There is also a dog in the image. From an album of 99 photographs compiled by or presented to Captain (later Brig-Gen) Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne. The album is entitled: ‘Personal album E F O Gascoigne. 1st & 3rd Battalions - 1894-1905’, but covers the period 1892-1905; taken in England and Gibraltar.