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Photograph of officers from the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, sitting around a table inside a hut and relaxing, drinking tea and smoking, Modder River, South Africa, during the Boer War, 1900 (c). They are mostly wearing uniform, although some are in their shirtsleeves. They are mostly named as: (Standing, from left to right): Capt Frederick Edward William Hervey-Bathurst; unknown; Lt Lord Thomas Towneley O’Hagan; Capt Gerald Frederic Trotter; Lt Edward Hugh Lygon; 2/Lt Edward George Spencer-Churchill; unknown (Sitting, from left to right): off camera, unknown; Capt Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise; Maj Henry Roger Compton-Roberts; Capt George Clement Tryon; Lt Grey William Duberly (with rifle and dead birds in front of him); Capt Laurence Rowe Fisher-Rowe; Lt Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox; Lt Gilbert Byng Alwyne Russell; Capt Arthur St Leger Glyn; Lt Col Eyre MacDonnell Stewart Crabbe. 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.

Modder River, Battle of, 1899 (Boer War 1899-1902)