Sgt Maj E Parkin, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2017-09-7-18-194
Description
Photograph of Sgt Maj James Edward Parkin, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, Park Place, Berkshire, 10th August 1912. He is wearing a civilian suit and holding a walking cane in one hand and a cigar in the other. The image was probably taken during a cricket match. Park Place belonged to Lt Wadham Heathcote Diggle’s mother’s family (Noble). From an album of 212 photographs (including archives) compiled by or presented to Lt Col Wadham Heathcote Diggle, 1910-1912 (c). It includes many portraits, group portraits and other images, many taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham and Pirbright, plus images of parades, sports, dogs and horses.
