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Photograph of the Pay Sergeants, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Wellington Barracks 1911. The eight non-commissioned officers pose for the image in front of Wellington Barracks, wearing their scarlet tunics, forage caps, sashes and medals. They are named as (from left to right): C/Sgt A M Hill (No. 1 Coy); C/Sgt G Fletcher (No. 2 Coy); C/Sgt S Jones (No. 3 Coy); C/Sgt J P Freeman (No. 4 Coy); C/Sgt O C Francombe (No. 5 Coy); C/Sgt C Riches (No. 6 Coy); C/Sgt C H Carter (No. 7 Coy); C/Sgt J Ball (No. 8 Coy). 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.