NAM.2017-09-7-38-3

Photograph of eight senior Sergeants of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, posing for the image in two rows with a building behind them, 1888-1902 (c). They are wearing their scarlet dress uniforms with sash, pillbox caps and hold canes. Some of them have medals. Most are Colour Sergeants - their badge of rank sits on top of the three chevrons. The soldier on the right of the front row is a Drill Sergeant. Despite being close in rank the Drill Sergeant wears a senior NCO's forage cap, the style of which is similar to the officers' with a solid metal badge but also has a gold lace cap band. The tunic collars have gold lace also. He has the same badge of rank as the Colour Sergeants next to him - the Colour badge superimposed on three gold chevrons - but he out-ranks Colour Sergeants. Some of the men are named: Back Row Standing: C/Sgt Paget (left); C/Sgt C Bellringer (second from the right) Front Row Seated: C/Sgt G Bragg (second from the left); C/Sgt J Rigby (centre); D/Sgt J Fowles (right). From an album of 79 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive entitled: ‘1st Battalion 1888-1902’; mainly group images and portraits, with locations such as Dublin and Wellington Barracks.