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Photograph entitled ‘A A Somerville Esq. House Football XI, 1914’, showing a group portrait of 11 young men from a house football team at Eton College posing with a dog and a football. Taken by Hills & Saunders, Eton. Annesley Ashworth Somerville was a Master at Eton College. A manuscript caption records the scores of a football tournament and shows that this team lost in the final. Pictured, from left to right: (Back row): R A G Hill, O W Dudley-Smith, N R Abbey, R L Murray-Laws (Middle row): C P E de Paravicini, F A M Browning, R D Crossman (holding a small dog), R H Pike-Pease, B H Allfrey (Front row): R H Combe, R L Sherlock. From an album of 73 photographs compiled by or presented to Lt Col Osbert Walter Dudley Smith. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album of O W D Smith’, and covers the period 1912-1930 (c). Contains portraits, group photos, including sports teams, and images of Eton College. Grenadier Guards reference number 83.