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Group photograph of Grenadier Guards officers posing for a photograph on steps in front of a large door at the Tower of London, 1897. They are nearly all wearing full dress including bearskin caps, sash and with swords hanging from their sword belts. Some of them have medals. Their names are written underneath: (Back row, left to right): 2/Lt Francis L V Swaine, 2/Lt Gerald Frederic Trotter, Lt Edward G Verschoyle, 2/Lt Capt Wilfred A Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell, Surgeon Maj Simpson Powell (with cocked hat), Lt (Hon) Richard Fitzroy Somerset (Middle row, left to right): 2/Lt (Hon) Edward D Loch, Capt George E Pereira, Lt Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil, Lt Gerard L Derriman (with frock coat and forage cap), Capt Joseph H R Bailey, Maj Francis Lloyd, 2/Lt Charles E Corkran (Front row, left to right): Capt Wilfred G H Marshall, Capt William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt, Capt Christopher W Darby-Griffith, Maj (Hon) Gilbert Legh, Col. Villiers Hatton, Capt Thomas H H Bradford-Atkinson, Maj (Hon) John Townshend St Aubyn, Capt Henry H Heywood-Lonsdale. 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.