Photograph showing the Colour Party from the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards inside Liverpool Cathedral during the ceremony for the laying up of the old Colours of the 2nd Battalion, 6th December 1953. Two officers, 2/Lt E H L Aubrey-Fletcher and 2/Lt J P B Agate, and three Colour Sergeants stand in the centre of the Catherdral with the congregation just visible behind them and the choir in front. Lt Col Charles Earle has has taken the Colours up to the waiting clergy, The soldiers are all wearing ceremonial uniform with their scarlet tunics and bearskin caps. 

From an album of 13 photographs and archives entitled: ‘2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Liverpool, 6th December 1953’, and relating to the Laying Up of old Colours in Liverpool Cathedral.