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Photocopy of a typescript key naming the Grenadier Guards officers and men of the 1st Motor Battalion and 2nd Armoured Battalion, Guards Armoured Division, posing for the image in five rows in front of the Dudley Hotel in Brighton, 17th May 1944. Their Colonel, Princess Elizabeth, had come to inspect them and had lunch at the hotel with the officers. She is seated in the centre of the image. Most of the soldiers are wearing battle dress and berets, with two of the officers in service dress and forage caps. 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)