NAM.2017-09-7-21-33

Photograph of the officers of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, taken outside the Officers’ Mess at Wellington Barracks, London, July 1930. The officers pose for the image on the steps of the building. They are mostly wearing full dress, with their scarlet tunics, bearskin caps and swords attacjed to their sword belts. Two are wearing the dark blue braided undress frock coats and forage caps. Some are named although the key is unclear: QM R Beard; Lt H R H Davies; Lt James Newton Rodney Moore; Capt J A Prescott; Capt J A Inglis-Jones Capt and Adjt Cecil Eustace Irby; Maj Frederick Arthur Montague Browning; Capt J U Hogarth; Lt W E P Miller; Capt Charles Michael Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn; Capt Allan Henry Shafto Adair; Lt R C E Herbert Lt Col Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne; Viscount Gort; Maj William Spelman Pilcher; Capt Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale. From an album of 69 photographs covering the period 1922-1938 - mainly relating to the 2nd and 3rd Battalions Grenadier Guards, taken at camps and events in Aldershot, Windsor, Pirbright, various barracks in London and the Guards Depot in Caterham.