NAM.1992-04-258-3

Photograph of a Subaltern carrying colour, 1939 (c). From a collection of 3 photographs taken by Mrs Albert Broom relating to the Grenadier Guards, 1930-1939 (c). Christina Broom operated under the professional name of Mrs Albert Broom after her husband died in 1912, although she had been selling her photographic postcards in London since 1904. She is credited as being the UK’s first female press photographer.