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Photograph of the Commanding Officers, Adjutant, Quartermaster, Sergeant Major and Staff Sergeants, of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Wellington Barracks, 1911. The 12 non-commissioned officers pose for the image in front of Wellington Barracks, wearing their scarlet tunics, forage caps. The three officers, sitting in the centre of the front row, wear dark blue braided frock coats, forage caps, and have their swords attached to their sword belts. The Drum Major wear his distinctive gold braided tunic with shoulder wings. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Drill Sgt H Wood; QMS W Fawcett; OR Sgt H Arnold; Sgt Master Cook W Atkins; Drum Major R Wombwell; C/Sgt Instructor in Musketry J L Capper; Sgt Master Tailor E Harbourne; Sgt Master Shoemaker E French; Armourer Staff Sergt A Welch; Drill Sgt J R Wyatt Front Row: Sgt Major G H Wall; Capt & Adjutant E J L Pike; Lt Col H G Ruggles-Brise MVO; Lt & QM W J Cook; Quarter Master Sgt F Acock From an album of 27 photographs entitled: ‘3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. Sergeants Mess’, 1898-1922. Most are images taken in Chelsea Barracks, Wellington Barracks and the Tower of London, with some taken in South Africa.