Staff College 1908
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-13-44

Description

Photograph of the officers at Staff College, Sandhurst, 1908. The large group of officers from different regiments pose for the image in front of buildings in six rows. A key accompanying the image lists all of their names and regiments and includes Maj Maxwell Earle DSO and Major the Lord Edward Douglas Loch DSO, both Grenadier Guards. They stand in the centre of the back row wearing their bearskin caps. They are named as: Cpt Edward Ellington (RFA); Cpt Thomas Hill-Whitson (14th Hussars); Cpt Edward Birch DSO (RFA); Maj Morton Foley Gage (7th Dgn Gds); Cpt Henry Needham (Gloster Rgt); Cpt Charles John Grant (Coldm Gds); Cpt Guy Payan Dawnay DSO MVO (Coldm Gds); Cpt Francis Douglas Farquhar DSO (Coldm Gds); Maj Maxwell Earle DSO (Gren Gds); Maj Lord Edward Loch DS MVO (Gren Gds); Cpt Edward Daniell DSO (R Irish Rgt); Cpt George David Bruce (61st Pioneers); Cpt George Norton Cory DSO (R Dublin Fus); Cpt John Stephen Cawley (20th Hussars); Cpt Duncan John Glasfurd (A&S Hghrs); Cpt Hugh Frederick Baillie (Seaf Hghrs); Cpt Charles Michell Wood/ Cpt Edward Robert Clayton (Oxford L I); Cpt Hon. Anthony Henley (5th Lancers); Cpt Frederick William Lumsden (R M Arty); Cpt Warburton Edward Davies (Rifle Bde); Cpt Llewellyn Price-Davies VC DSO (K R RIfles); Cpt William Drysdale (Ryl Scots); Cpt Arthur Crookenden (Cheshire Rgt); Maj Ian Stewart (Scot Rifles); Cpt Henry Rowan-Robinson; Cpt Arthur Frederick Williams DSO (31st Lanc, I A); Cpt Charles Herbert Bingham (A S Corps); Maj P C Thacker (R Canadian M R); Cpt Louis Ridley Vaughan (113th Inf, I A); Cpt George Henry Freeth DSO (Lanc Fus)/ Maj Frederick Richard Hicks (Hants Rgt); Cpt Philip Woolcott Game (R F Arty); Cpt Spencer Edmund Hollond (Rifle Bde); Maj Stanley Fielder Mott (K R Rifles); Cpt Robert Ommanney (Ryl Eng); Cpt Basil Wilfred Bowdler (Ryl Eng); Maj Robert McClintock (Ryl Eng); Cpt John Cartwright Newman (Essex Rgt); Cpt Brian Chetwynd-Stapylton (Cheshire Rgt); Cpt Herbert Waking Grubb (Border Rgt)/ Cpt Ralph Ernest James (N Lanc Rgt); Cpt Robert Gabbett Parker (R Lanc Rgt); Cpt Barnet Dyer Anley (Essex Rgt); Cpt Hereward Wake DSO (K R Rifles); Cpt Bryan James Curling (K R RIfles); Maj William Gillman DSO (R Arty); Cpt John Brough (R M Arty); Cpt George Patrick Grant DSO (106th Haz Prs); Cpt Victor de la Fontaine (E Surrey Rgt); Cpt Hubert Kemmis-Betty (R Canadian Rgt); Cpt James Cochrane (Leinster Rgt); Cpt Alfred Ollivant (RGA); Cpt Reginald Seymour Allen (Hants Rgt)/ Cpt Gerald Maxwell Orr (11th K E O Lan I A); Cpt Cuthbert Evans (R F Arty)/ Cpt Hon. Christian Henry Guest (1st Ryl Dgns); Cpt George Pakenham (Border Rgt); Maj Edward Vansittart Riddell (RGA); Cpt Edward George Henderson (RE); Cpt George Nugent (RGA); Cpt Archibald Middleton Kettlewell (39th C I H, I A); Cpt John Francis Doyle (RFA); Lt-Col George Harper DSO (RE); Lt-Col William Furse DSO; Lt-Col Charles Ross DSO; Cpt Charles Harington DSO (Lvpool Rgt); Cpt Wallace Dufflield Wright VC (The Queens); Cpt George Smyth-Osbourne (Devon Rgt); Maj Berkeley Vincent (RFA); Cpt Gearoge Charleton Merrick DSO (RGA); Cpt Raymond Hamilton-Grace (Durham L I); Cpt W K Bourne (2nd Lancers I A)/ Cpt John Pierse Mackesy (RE); Cpt William Henry Moore DSO (RGA); Lt-Col Edward Chaytor (New Zealand Forces); Lt-Col Hon. George Morris (Irish Gds); Col Charles Sackville-West (K R RIfles); Col Frederick Lionel Banon; Col Lionel Arthur Stopford (Irish Gds); Br-Gen Henry Wilson CB DSO (Commandant); Col Walter Pipon Braithwaite; Col Edward Maxwell Perceval DSO (RA); Lt-Col George Barrow; Cpt Anthony Edward Tucker (Staff College Librarian); Maj Neville John Cameron (Cameron Hghrs); Maj Algernon Lawson (2nd Dragoons); Maj Arthur Jex-Blake Percival DSO (Northd Fus); Cpt Harold Child Bickford (6th Dragoon Gds); Cpt Robert Lumsden Ricketts (10th Lanc I A)/ From an album of 68 photographs compiled by or presented to Col Maxwell Earle DSO. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album, M. Earle. South Africa - 1900-1904’, but covers the period 1899-1909. The images and group portraits are mainly taken in England, such as in London, or Aldershot, plus a few taken in South Africa during the Boer War.

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