Permanent Staff, Headquarters Grenadier Guards London, April 1957
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-30-37

Description

Photograph of the Permanent Staff, Headquarters Grenadier Guards (Wellington Barracks), London, April 1957. They stand or sit in four rows in front of the building, wearing tunics and forage caps. Three of the most senior officers are wearing frock coats with their swords attached to their sword belts. Taken by Vandyck Studios of Farnborough. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Gdsn J Bacon; A Farrar; B Sheppard; B Grundy; R Richardson; Cpl R Alderton RAPC; Gdsn P McGlynn; P Ringrose; J Antcliff; E Smith; A Blair Third Row: Gdsn A Crook; A Budgett; W Bradford; J Dingley; J Haigh; A Dick; N Cox; A Smith; A McMillan; G Hickey; J Harrison; G Baker Second Row: L/Sjt E Edwards; L/Cpls B Lester; H Buckley; S Colsell; G Dyer; L/Sjts G Pitcher; T Bishop BEM; L/Cpls R Kemp; L Connolly; A Peachey; Gdsn R Coe; L/Cpl C Morss; L/Sjt D Tanner Front Row: Sjts W Farnsworth; F Hewitt; ORQMS P Parry; Major D W Fraser (Regimental Adjutant); Superintending Clerk E C Weaver MBE; Colonel Sir Thomas Butler, Bt. DSO OBE (Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the Regiment); RQMS W Cheshire; Captain T C Richardson (Assistant Regimental Adjutant); Sjts A Jones; C Jenkins; R Tooze From a photograph album containing 52 images relating to the Grenadier Guards, 1950-1959. Images include those of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions taken in places including Windsor, London, Guards Depot Caterham, Egypt, Cyprus, and Germany.