NAM.2017-09-7-74-25

Photograph of the McCalmont Cup Team from the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1922. They pose for the image in two rows, in front of a building, wearing khaki service dress and forage caps, many with their rifles resting against their legs. The McCalmont Cup is a shooting competition. Three silver trophies have been placed on a table in the centre of them. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Gdsn Russell; Sgt A Watts DCM MM; L/Sgt A Hancock; Sgt C Wighton; Sgt T Loftus; CSMIM J Norton DCM; Sgt G Shelton; D/Sgt C Marriott MM Front Row: OR/QMS W Underwood; Major E D Ridley MC; Lieut-Col Lord Henry Seymour DSO (Comdg 3rd Bn Gren Guards); Capt & Adjt R B B Wright; RSM F Speller MC; D/Sgt R Hockings DSM From an album of 27 photographs entitled: ‘3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. Sergeants Mess’, 1898-1922. Most are images taken in Chelsea Barracks, Wellington Barracks and the Tower of London, with some taken in South Africa.