NAM.2017-09-7-39-34

Photograph of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, formed up on parade, possibly at Frensham Camp, Surrey, 1894. They are wearing their scarlet tunics and field service caps, and holds their rifles down by their sides. A group of officers and senior non-commissioned officers can be seen on the left with Lt Col Lord Arthur Charles Wellesley, probaby the man on horseback. Lord Wellesley commanded the 1st Battalion. A drummer or other musician stands along to the far left, and tents can be seen in the background. Image produced by W. Gregory & Co., London, and F. G. O. Stuart. 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.