photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-19-44

Description

Group photograph showing 25 Grenadier Guards officers in undress uniform, 1926 (c). They are seated or standing in three rows in front of some trees. They are all wearing frock coats and forage caps apart from Lt & QM H Wood, who stands on the left hand side wearing his tunic, forage cap and Sam Browne belt. Three of the officers in the front centre row have their swords. They are named as (from left to right): Back row: Lt Archibald Grant, Lt Osbert Walter Dudley-Smith, Lt Sir Hugh Smiley, Lt Lord Hotham, 2/Lt Robert William Lindsay, 2/Lt R T Lee, 2/Lt R H Bushman. Middle Row: Lt QM H Wood, Lt J C Hargreaves, 2/Lt Alastair Edward Hyde Villiers, 2/Lt M W Lowry-Corry, Lt J B Ford, Lt R A Smith, Lt Edward Henry Goulburn, Lt James Bryan George Hennessy, Lt Hall-Hall. Front row: Capt P J M Ellison, Capt Evelyn Ronald Moncrieff Fryer, Maj John Hughes, Bt Lt Col Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne, Lt Col Lancelot Mare Gregson, Capt Cecil Eustace Irby, Capt Cuthbert Ernest Montague Ellison, Capt G P Phillipps, Capt J A Lloyd. From an album of 73 photographs compiled by or presented to Lt Col Osbert Walter Dudley Smith. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album of O W D Smith’, and covers the period 1912-1930 (c). Contains portraits, group photos, including sports teams, and images of Eton College. Grenadier Guards reference number 83.