NAM.2017-09-7-6-41

Photograph captioned: ‘Home District Staff, 1897’, showing five officers standing in a field. They are (from left to right): Capt Frederick Stanley Maude, Coldstream Guards, wearing his Staff Officer uniform; Major (Hon) Arthur Henry Henniker-Major, Coldstream Guards, wearing the regimental Aide-de-Camp uniform; Maj Gen Lord Paul Methuen, late Scots Guards, wearing his Major General’s uniform; Col William Henry MacKinnon, late Grenadier Guards. wears Staff Officer uniform; Lt Cecil Foster Seymour Vandeleur DSO, Scots Guards, wears the regimental Aide-de-Camp uniform. They all wear white gloves, boots, riding breeches, and have their swords attached to their sword belts. 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.