NAM.2017-09-7-6-19

Photograph of three senior non-commissioned officers from the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, standing in full uniform in front of the doorway to a large building, 1896. Their uniform includes a scarlet first class tunic with gold lace covering the front of their collars and two gold lace lines around the cuffs, sash, bearskin caps, and white sword belt with sword attached. They are have Egyptian campaign medals and hold swagger sticks. They are named as (from left to right); Drill Sergeant G Dunkeld, Sgt Major William George Alfred Garton, and Drill Sergeant Ambrose. From an album of 99 photographs compiled by or presented to Captain (later Brig-Gen) Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne. The album is entitled: ‘Personal album E F O Gascoigne. 1st & 3rd Battalions - 1894-1905’, but covers the period 1892-1905; taken in England and Gibraltar.