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Photograph of a group of Grenadier Guards veterans posing for the image in front of the doorway to a building at Chelsea Barracks, London, 1896. Some of them are wearing civilian suits, others are In-Pensioners at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Most of them have medals. Some of them are known to be: (Back row, left): Pte J Selby (Front row): Sgt H Doswell (second from the left); Pte W Cruse (third from the left); Sgt Albert Ablett VC (centre - who won his VC for his actions at Sevastopol); Pte J Sawyer (fourth from the right); Pte W Carter (second from the right). 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.