National Army Museum

London District Cross Country Championships Runners who were in the Guards Depot Winning Teams of 1935, 1936 and 1937

photograph, photograph

Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-22-7

Description

Photograph of the Brigade of Guards runners who were in the Guards Depot Winning Teams of 1935, 1936 and 1937 in the London District Cross Country Championships. The six men are wearing sports kit, and pose with the Commandant (wearing a frock coat and forage cap) Maj W D Faulkner. A trophy and medals sit on the ground in front of them and the Guards Chapel of St Michael the Archangel can be seen behind them. Taken by G and H Bunce, Westway, Caterham. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Td.S J Carter, (Grenadier Guards); L/Cpl A Attenborough, (Grenadier Guards); Td.S N Laurence, (Grenadier Guards);; L/Cpl J Biggenden, (Grenadier Guards); Front Row: L/Sergt L Simpson, (Coldstream Guards); Major Walter Douglas Faulkner MC, (Irish Guards - Commandant); Sergt W Shanaham (Irish Guards). From an album of 29 photographs compiled by or presented to Sgt J Biggenden. It covers the period 1927-1951 and includes mainly group images taken at the Guards Depot in Caterham, plus some inspections such as by HM The Queen at Windsor Castle.

Units

Grenadier Guards, (1877-)

Coldstream Guards

Irish Guards

People

Biggenden, J

Faulkner, Walter Douglas

Bunce, George and Herbert

Dimensions

Width: 375 mm Text: 298 mm

Inscriptions

London District Cross Country Championships Runners who were in the Guards Depot Winning Teams of 1935, 1936 and 1937. G & H Bunce Westway, Caterham Td.S J Carter, G.G.; L/Cpl A Attenborough, G.G.; Td.S N Laurence, G.G.; L/Cpl J Biggenden, G.G.; L/Sergt L Simpson, C.G.; Major W D Faulkner MC, I.G.(Commandant); Sergt W Shanaham, I.G.