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Photograph of the winners and runners-up of the Guards Depot Athletic Championship, taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham, July 1930. Both Depot Companies are from the Grenadier Guards, with the 13th Company being the winners and the 14th Company the runners-up. They pose in several rows with the men wearing sports kit and the officers in the front row in service dress with forage caps and Sam Browne belts. A large chalk board displays the results and an array of trophies and prizes are laid out on the grass in front of them. Trees and a large building can be seen behind them. Taken by G and H Bunce, Langdale Studio, Caterham. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Gdsn S Poston; Td.S R Mead; Gdsn Wigginton; L/Sgt C Dryden; Td.S W Allen; J Biggenden; S Fenton; Gdsn F Condon Middle Row: L/Sgt A E Harrison; L/Cpl F Potter; Gdsn E Cundick; C Watkins; J McNaught; Sgt W Betts; Gdsn H Searson; J Skene; L/Sgt A Hill; F Payne; Td.S G Astle; L/Sgt C Cranwell Front Row: CSM A J Brand; Major F A Magnay; L/Sgt F Holmes; Gdsn J Oldrey (lying down); N Nixon (lying down); L/Cpl C Fergus; Lieut & Adjt A S Hanning; Lieut G C V Tryon 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.