14th Company Grenadier Guards Winners of Guards Depot Inter-Company Cross-Country Challenge Cup, Jan 1949
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Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-22-27

Description

Winners of the Guards Depot Inter-Company Cross-Country Challenge Cup from the 14th Company Grenadier Guards, taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham, January 1949. They pose in three rows with the men wearing sports kit and the officers and non-commissioned officers in the front row in service or battle dress with forage caps. A small silver cup is on the ground in front of them. Buildings can be seen behind them. Photograph taken by G and H Bunce, Westway, Caterham. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Gdsn D Gravenor; P Hancy; A Dunn; W Bailey; I Binch Middle Row: Gdsn R Pickett; A Langley; C Jeanes; G Thorpe; L Ralph; C Leeson; I McKinnon; H Mudd; J Begg Front Row: Cpl J Bailey; Sgt D McMahon; CSM F Giles; Maj R G S Rasch, Lt H Hamilton-Dalrympe; Sgt J Biggenden (Trainer); Cpl D Drake; Cpl W WIlliams Td.S C Gunn and Td.S D Graves marked as absent. From an album of 29 photographs compiled by or presented to Sgt J Biggenden. It covers the period 1927-1951 and includes mainly group images taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham, plus some inspections such as by HM The Queen at Windsor Castle.