1872 Lt Col George Johnstone, Surgeon Lane
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-1-187

Description

Photograph of 15 Grenadier Guards officers posing for the image in front of the steps of a building, possibly in a barracks, 1858-68 (c). They are all wearing undress uniform with frock coats, peaked pillbox forage caps and sword belts with swords attached. Only one man on the right is wearing a civilian suit and hat. At their feet sits a large black dog. 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.