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Photograph captioned: ‘Football Team 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1908-1909’, showing 18 Grenadier Guardsmen posing for the photograph in front of a building covered in ivy. The football team wear their kit and the front row sits on the ground with a football in the centre. Photographed by Gale & Polden, Aldershot. Two non-commission officers and three officers in frock coats sit in the second row and are named as: From left to right: Sergeant Major Alexander Augustus Stewart Thomas DCM, Lt Wadham Heathcote Diggle, Col. The Earl of Cavan, Lt and Adjutant Lancelot Mare Gregson and Drill Sergeant J. E. Parkin. From an album of 268 photographs compiled by or presented to Lt Col Wadham Heathcote Diggle, 1900-1909 (c). It follows some of his earlier naval service in places such as Bermuda and Newfoundland, before he joined the Grenadier Guards.