NAM.2017-09-7-58-74

Photograph of six officers of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, posing for the camera by the entrance to a barrack building (probably Victoria Barracks), Windsor, 1866. The three men on the left are wearing civilian suits. Col Cathcart is in full dress with scarlet tunic, sash, medals, bearskin cap and sword. On the right are two officer in the dark blue undress uniform with braided frock coat and forage cap. They are named as (from left to right): Capt Charles Wellesley Pakenham (leaning through the window), Lt George Ernest Shelley, Lt Col Augustus Henry Lane-Fox, Col Augustus Murray Cathcart, Capt Edward George Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrook (with book) and Capt William Henry Carington, From an album of 110 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive entitled: ‘2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards’, covering the period 1858-1880 (c). Mainly officers portraits. Possibly compiled by Viscount Hinchingbrook.