Camp at Colchester 1901
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-13-50

Description

Photograph of three officers posing for the image on horseback, Colchester Camp, 1901. They are wearing riding breeches and boots, patrol jackets, and their forage caps have a white hat cover. They are (from left to right): Capt and Adj Maxwell Earle, Col Horace Ricardo, both Grenadier Guards, and R Lucas. 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.