NAM.2017-09-7-38-17
Photograph of lots of individual portrait photographs entitled: ‘Warrant Officers, Staff Sergeants & Sergeants. 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, Tower of London, 1888’. Possibly a photograph of an album page. Each image is a head and torso photograph of an individual soldier, wearing their scarlet tunics, sashes, and either peaked or pillbox caps. Some of the men have medals. On the bottom row is a picture of a dog called Pat. They are named as (from left to right): Top row: Sgt Russell; Pioneer Sgt Thomas Stoton; Sgt H H Todd; Sgt Gaspell; Sgt J Gill; Colour Sgt Murray; Sgt Payall (?); Sgt Carpenter; Sgt E (?) (Second row from the top): Sgt M Thomas; Colour Sgt J Brand; Colour Sgt H Spencer; Drum Major G Philip; Senior Instructor of Musketry J Pritchard; Band Sgt E Knight; Colour Sgt W Smith; Colour Sgt J Smith; Sgt Moses (?) (Third row from the top): Sgt W Denton; Sgt J Peers; Drill Sgt J Fowles (Senior): Staff Armourer E J Collins; Sgt Maj Gee; Sgt Mag G Powell (Regimental); Quartermaster Sgt O’Connor (Regimental); Quartermaster Sgt J Hay (?); Drill Sgt C Burrow (Junior); Sgt A Harris; Sgt J (?) (Second row from the bottom): Sgt J Dunster; Colour Sgt G Bragg; Colour Sgt J Rigby; Quartermaster Sgt H C Jones; Quartermaster Sgt Barker; Sgt Butler; Colour Sgt Farnell (?); Colour Sgt C Bellringer; Sgt Howreed (?) Bottom row: Sgt G..(?); Sgt H Riley; Sgt H Ormby (/); Sgt S J Barnes; Pat (a dog sitting on a bench); Sgt P Powney (?); Sgt J Tamblin (?); Sgt E Jones; Sgt Hudson From an album of 79 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive entitled: ‘1st Battalion 1888-1902’; mainly group images and portraits, with locations such as Dublin and Wellington Barracks.
