NAM.2017-09-7-27-266

Photograph of three Grenadier Guards officers outside buildings in Brighton, 17th May 1944. They are wearing battle dress and berets and serve in the Guards Armoured Division - either the 1st Motor Battalion or the 2nd Armoured Battalion. Princess Elizabeth had come to make her first inspection as Colonel, watching them march past on a hill in Hove before having lunch at the Dudley Hotel in Brighton. Capt Arthur Grant stands on the right of the image. From an album of 271 photographs collated by General Sir James Newton Rodney Moore, Grenadier Guards, with images taken between 1940-1949 in places such as Windsor, the Guards Depot, Canada, Germany, Belgium and Tunisia.

World War Two (1939-1945)