NAM.2017-09-7-1-178

Photograph of two Grenadier Guards officers and four non-commissioned officers, posing for the image by a brick wall or fortification, Dublin, 1868. They wear a mixture of uniform including undress frock coats, tunics and one man in a white drill jacket. They are all wearing pillbox forage caps except for one man who wears a civilian suit with an apron over the top. Three of them are holding rifles. Probably the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. They are listed as: Lt Col Frederick Thomas Arthur Hervey-Bathurst (standing, left); HSH Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar (standing, right); Sergt Humphreys (seated, left); Sergt Smiles (wearing civilian suit); Corporal Keep (in white drill jacket) and Colour Sergeant Swingler (with medals including the Crimea medal). From an album of 202 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive compiled by or presented to Surgeon Major James John Marjoribanks Wardrop. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album Surgeon Major Wardrup [sic], The Regiment, 1858-1868’, but covers the period 1854-1872. Mainly officers portraits. Grenadier Guards reference number 2.