Shooting Eight. 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. Winners of McCalmont Cup 1895
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-6-34

Description

Photograph of the winners of the McCalmont Cup, 1895 - the Shooting Eight from the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. The winning team post with their trophy and rifles. They are named as: (Back row from left to right): Sgt Maj William George Alfred Garton; Colour Sgt J Browne; Sgt Intructor of Musketry A Yorke; Sgt C Home (Front row from left to right): Hon Lt & QM James May; Lt & Adj Godfrey Clement Walker Heneage; 2/Lt Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne; Lt George Clement Tryon; Drill Sgt G Dunkeld From an album of 99 photographs compiled by or presented to Captain (later Brig-Gen) Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne. The album is entitled: ‘Personal album E F O Gascoigne. 1st & 3rd Battalions - 1894-1905’, but covers the period 1892-1905; taken in England and Gibraltar.