NAM.2017-09-7-39-31

Photograph of the soldiers from No 3 Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, posing for the image in several rows, Pirbright Camp, Summer 1894. Most of them are wearing their white drill jackets and pillbox caps, although two are wearing scarlet tunics and the four officers are in patrol jackets. A drummer boy sits at the front with his drum and bugle. Trees are behind them. The four officers are: Lord John P Cecil (standing to the left of the back row); Lt George F Molyneux-Montgomerie (standing to the right, middle); Capt David Alexander Kinloch (seated in the middle of the row behind the front row) and 2/Lt Edward Henry Trotter (front row in front of Kinloch). From an album of 75 photographs and archives entitled: ‘Personal Album, G F M Montgomerie. The Regiment 1893-1894’ (but relates to the period 1893-1896); 1st Battalion group images, in camps and on manoeuvres, in places such as the West Indies, Windsor, Pirbright and Chatham.