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14th Company Grenadier Guards Winners of the Depot Inter-Regimental Cross Country Cup, Jan 1946

photograph, photograph

Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-22-18

Description

Photograph of the 14th Company Grenadier Guards - winners of the Depot Inter-Regimental Cross Country Cup, January 1946. They pose for the image in three rows in front of some trees at the Guards Depot in Caterham. The men are all wearing sports kit, with CSM Dickinson and Major Bowes-Lyon sitting in the middle of the front row wearing service dress and forage caps. A silver trophy is on the ground by their feet. Taken by G & H Bunce of Caterham. The men are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Rcts: C Adams; F Fathers; B O’Meara; E Bradbury; A Henshaw Middle Row: Rct A Fletcher; Td.S K Roberts; Rcts: J Leach; T Wilkes; D Wheatley; L Winslow; K Brand; K Birtles Front Row: Sgts: L Jones; A Tyler; A Howl; CSM A Dickinson; Major The Hon. Francis James Cecil Bowes-Lyon MC; Sgts: D Randall; J Biggenden; C Yearn Rct D Cox (in hospital) From an album of 29 photographs compiled by or presented to Sgt J Biggenden. It covers the period 1927-1951 and includes mainly group images taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham, plus some inspections such as by HM The Queen at Windsor Castle.

Units

Grenadier Guards, (1877-)

People

Biggenden, J

Bowes-Lyon, Sir Francis James Cecil

Bunce, George and Herbert

Dimensions

Width: 278 mm Text: 203 mm

Inscriptions

14th Company Grenadier Guards Winners of the Depot Inter-Regimental Cross Country Cup, Jan 1946 G & H Bunce Caterham Rcts: C Adams; F Fathers; B O’Meara; E Bradbury; A Henshaw Rct A Fletcher; Td.S K Roberts; Rcts: J Leach; T Wilkes; D Wheatley; L Winslow; K Brand; K Birtles Sgts: L Jones; A Tyler; A Howl; CSM A Dickinson; Major The Hon. J B C [sic] Bowes-Lyon MC; Sgts: D Randall; J Biggenden; C Yearn Rct D Cox (in hospital)