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Photograph of HRH The Duke of Connaught with the Officers, Warrant Officers and Sergeants, of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Albuhera Barracks, Aldershot, July 1935. They pose in five rows in front of trees wearing their scarlet tunics and forage caps. The bandsmen in the group are identifiable by their elaborately braided tunics with shoulder wings and the Drum Major (standing at the left of the front row) is holding the Drum Major’s parade cane. The five officers in the front row, including the Duke, - the Colonel of the Regiment - are wearing dark blue frock coats and forage caps and hold their swords. The front row are named as (from left to right): Drum Major Baldwin (standing); CSM Snowball; D/Sgt Garton; RSM Garnett; Capt R B R Colvin, Regtl Adjt; Col G E C Rasch; The Duke of Connnaught; Major Browning CO; Capt H R H Davies, Adjt; RQMS Bale; CSM Teece; CSM Reynolds; Sgt Master Tailor Gerrans (standing). From an album of 69 photographs covering the period 1922-1938 - mainly relating to the 2nd and 3rd Battalions Grenadier Guards, taken at camps and events in Aldershot, Windsor, Pirbright, various barracks in London and the Guards Depot in Caterham.