photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2017-09-7-17-8
Description
Photograph of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards as they march down a road to enter Pirbright Camp 1910. Two officers march on the left hand side of the image, with a long line of Guardsmen trailing down the road. All of the men are wearing their tunics and bearskin caps, white Slade Wallace webbing, and have their rifles on their shoulders. The two officers are likely to be: 2/Lt Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher (taller man on the left) and Lt Cholmeley Symes-Thomspon. From an album of 59 photographs entitled: ‘The Regiment, 1910’. It includes images of the regiment’s involvement in the State Funeral of King Edward VII in May 1910, as well some portraits of officers and groups.
