photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-66-3

Description

Photograph showing the Colour Party from the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards proceeding into Liverpool Cathedral during the ceremony for the laying up of the old Colours of the 2nd Battalion, 6th December 1953. Two officers, 2/Lt Edward Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher and 2/Lt J P B Agate, hold the Colours and are accompanied by three Colour Sergeants with rifles on their shoulders. They are all wearing ceremonial uniform with their scarlet tunics and bearskin caps. Other dignitaries stand on the steps. From an album of 13 photographs and archives entitled: ‘2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Liverpool, 6th December 1953’, and relating to the Laying Up of old Colours in Liverpool Cathedral.