photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-17-19

Description

Photograph of three Grenadier Guards officers from the 1st Battalion on a road as they enter Pirbright Camp, 1910. They are (from left to right) Lt and QM James Rollinson, Lt and Adj Wadham Heathcote Diggle and Lt Lancelot Mare Gregson (on horseback). Rollinson and Diggle are wearing field service uniform and forage caps whilst Gregson wears his tunic and bearskin cap. They talk as they walk and ride down the road. Another soldier in field service uniform can be seen in the background standing on the side of the road. From an album of 59 photographs entitled: ‘The Regiment, 1910’. It includes images of the regiment’s involvement in the State Funeral of King Edward VII in May 1910, as well some portraits of officers and groups.