NAM.2017-09-7-62-37

Photograph showing soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, formed up in several lines, Gibraltar, 1899. They are wearing white drill jackets and pillbox caps. A distant hill can be seen behind them. The three officers wear dark blue undress uniform and peaked caps, with their swords hanging from their sword belts. They are named as (from left to right): Lt Ivo A Broadwood, Lt William S B Blackett and Capt George C Nugent. Lt Broadwood died later the same year; Blackett and Nugent were both killed in the First World War. From an album of 89 photographs related to the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in Gibraltar and Morocco, 1899. Mainly images showing other ranks group portraits, sports teams, marching, rifle drill.