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Photograph of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, on parade at the Tower of London for changing quarters, 1903. The battalion lines up in several rows wearing full dress with scarlet tunics, bearskin caps and their rifles resting on their left shoulders. The band lines up on the left of the image with Lt Col John Townshend St Aubyn on horseback. The White Tower is to the left, with Waterloo Barracks to the right. The Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula is at the back. Photograph taken by Mons. Louis of Euston Road, London. From an album of 27 photographs entitled: ‘3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. Sergeants Mess’, 1898-1922. Most are images taken in Chelsea Barracks, Wellington Barracks and the Tower of London, with some taken in South Africa.