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Photograph of the winners and runners-up of the Guards Depot Athletic Cup, taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham, 1932. Both Depot Companies are from the Grenadier Guards, with the 14th Company being the winners and the 13th Company the runners-up. They pose in three rows with the men wearing sports kit and the officer and warrant officers in the front row in service dress with forage caps. Seven silver trophies are laid out on a blanket on the grass in front of them. Trees and a large building can be seen behind them. Taken by G and H Bunce, Westway, Caterham. A small newspaper cutting from the Daily Telegraph of the 16th March 1976 has been stuck onto one corner of the image with an obituary for Sir (Charles) Michael Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn. He is the officer in the image sitting in the centre of the front row wearing a Sam Browne belt and gloves with his service dress. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Rct C Eves; S Whyley; W Whiting; L/Sgt L Parsons; Rct A Williams; A Harris; Td.S C Sanders Middle Row: L/Cpl J Walker; Rct B Groom; Td.S J Inger; Rct T Bloxham; A Godfrey; R Bryan; J Hope; J Hurd; W Wilde; J Wilson; Td.S J Biggenden Front Row: Rct H Oates; H Elliott; Sgt E Randall; CSM C Sheather; Capt C M D Venables-Llewellyn; Sgt A Campbell; Td.S R Spick; Sgt B Clements From an album of 29 photographs compiled by or presented to Sgt J Biggenden. It covers the period 1927-1951 and includes mainly group images taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham, plus some inspections such as by HM The Queen at Windsor Castle.