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Photograph of three officers sitting at a small table having lunch in a camp during manoeuvres in Essex, 1904. Some white bell tents can be seen in the camp behind them. They are wearing service dress, with two of the officers wearing forage caps and the third a wide-brimmed hat. On the left of the image with his back to the camera is Capt Maxwell Earle, Grenadier Guards. Next to Earle sits Capt Gilbert Byng Alwyne Russell, also Grenadier Guards. The indentity of the man sitting opposite is unknown. 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.

Army Manoeuvres, England, 1904 (Exercises 1900-1909)