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Press cutting from ‘The Morning Post’ relating to the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards ‘Swimming Entertainment’, 9th April 1896. The article talks of the display of diving, swimming, water polo and races watched by a large crowd of soldiers and the public which took place at St George’s Baths in London. It was the first such meeting and highlighted the efforts the regiment had gone to to encourage swimming. The event was attended by Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, and Gen Lord Paul Methuen, Commanding Home District. From an album of 75 photographs and archives entitled: ‘Personal Album, G F M Montgomerie. The Regiment 1893-1894’ (but relates to the period 1893-1896); 1st Battalion group images, in camps and on manoeuvres, in places such as the West Indies, Windsor, Pirbright and Chatham.