photograph (copy), photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-2-22

Description

Photographic copy of showing nine members of the Grenadier Guards posing by the doorway of a building. The photograph was probably taken at Windsor Barracks in March 1864. The officers are wearing a mixture of either undress frock coats or full dress tunics, with Quartermaster Esau Collins wearing a civilian suit and smoking a pipe. They are named from left to right as: (Standing): Capt William Henry Parnell; Capt (Hon) William Sholto Douglas Home; Lt (Hon) Norman de L’Aigle Grosvenor (wearing bearskin cap); QM Esau Collins; Lt (Hon) Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust (Seated): Capt Alexander Louis Ricardo; Capt Clifton Gascoigne; Lt James St Vincent Saumarez; Col Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe From a photograph album containing 22 copies of images taken by Lt Col Henry William Verschoyle, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. The original photographs were taken between 1860-1864, and consist mainly of group portraits. Grenadier Guards reference number 99.