Eastbourne 1863
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-1-34

Description

Photo of five officers of the Grenadier Guards standing around a cannon with two dogs, taken at the fort in Eastbourne, 1863. Three of them are wearing undress uniform with frock coats and peaked pillbox forage caps. The other two (Lt Col Hogge and The Hon Charles Ernest Edgcumbe) are wearing civilian suits. The officers are named as: (Back row) - Lt Col Cameron Neville Hogge, Lt Alexander Louis Ricardo (Front row) - Col John Hynde King, The Hon Charles Ernest Edgcumbe (Seated on the ground) - Capt Charles Berners Jarrett. From an album of 202 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive compiled by or presented to Surgeon Major James John Marjoribanks Wardrop. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album Surgeon Major Wardrup [sic], The Regiment, 1858-1868’, but covers the period 1854-1872. Mainly officers portraits. Grenadier Guards reference number 2.