Officers 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Chelsea Barracks, Sept 1928
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-21-18

Description

Photograph of the Officers of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, taken outside the Officers Mess and Quarters, Chelsea Barracks, September 1928. They pose for the image in three rows. Most of them are wearing full dress with their scarlet tunics, bearskin caps and swords hanging from their sword belts. Some of the officers in the back row are wearing service dress and forage cap and Capt Drury is wearing his blue braided frock coat and forage cap (front row, left). Image taken by Carl Vandyk. Most of them are named (from left to right) as: Back two rows (key is unclear): 2/Lt Meysey George Dallas Clive; 2/Lt J E Harrison; QM R Beard 2/Lt R C E Herbert; 2/Lt L S Starkey; Lt James Newton Rodney Moore; Lt W E P Miller; Lt H R H Davies; Lt Charles George Vivian Tryon; Lt Robert William Ludovic Lindsay Front Row: Capt Guy Alexander Ingram Dury MC; Capt Charles Michael Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn; Capt Clarence Richard Goss; Maj Frederick Arthur Montague Browning; Lt Col Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne; Lord Henry Charles Seymour; Maj William Spelman Pilcher; Capt J R Aird; Capt J Prescott; Lt Richard Beale Rous Colvin; Capt J U Hogarth. From an album of 69 photographs covering the period 1922-1938 - mainly relating to the 2nd and 3rd Battalions Grenadier Guards, taken at camps and events in Aldershot, Windsor, Pirbright, various barracks in London and the Guards Depot in Caterham.