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Inspection notes or card for the Grenadier Guards, 19 April 1895. Inspected by the Colonel, Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Cambridge, and Lt Col Laurence James Oliphant. A table on the front shows the numbers of officers and men in each battalion on parade that day, and how many are absent. The total across the three battalions on parade are 76 Officers; 199 Warrant Officers and Sergeants; 119 Band and Drummers; 1573 Rank and File - totalling 1887. A further 609 are not on parade that day (for reasons such as being sick, on guard, or at the depot). On the back are the names of the officers in each battalion which are commanded by: 1st Btn - Col Lord Arthur Charles Wellesley; 2nd Btn - Col Horace Ricardo; 3rd Btn - Col Edmund Antrobus. From an album of 77 photographs (including some archives and postcards) relating to the Grenadier Guards, 1894-1909 (c). Includes training at Frensham Camp, boxing matches, orders for King Edward VII’s Coronation and images from Staff College 1909, including a trip to the Franco-Prussian War battlefields in France.