Officers 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards Barrosa Barracks Aldershot - Summer 1925
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-21-8

Description

Photograph of the officers of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, taken at Barrosa Barracks, Aldershot, in the summer of 1925. The 22 officers pose for the image in three rows in front of trees. They are all wearing dark blue braided undress frock coats and forage caps with their swords hanging from their sword belts. The only exception to this is QM and Captain G H Wall (middle row fourth from the left) who is wearing service dress and a Sam Browne belt. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Lt Hercules Dermot Wilfred Pakenham; 2/Lt Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport; 2/Lt Marquess of Hamilton; 2/Lt W E P Miller; Lt William Reginald James Alston-Roberts-West; Lt Henry Edmund Rimington-Wilson; Lt Richard Beale Rous Colvin Middle Row: Capt Clarence Richard Goss; 2/Lt H R H Davies; Capt G H Bull; QM and Capt G H Wall; Lt J U Hogarth; 2/Lt James Newton Rodney Moore; 2/Lt Algernon George William Heber-Percy; Capt Hon. William Marmaduke Stourton MC Front Row: Capt Francis Henry Godolphin Layland-Barratt; Maj Charles Henry Greville; Viscount Gort; Lt Col Mark Edward Makgill-Crichton-Maitland; Lt the Hon P F A Cust; Capt Charles Ricahrd Britten; Capt John A Prescott. From an album of 69 photographs covering the period 1922-1938 - mainly relating to the 2nd and 3rd Battalions Grenadier Guards, taken at camps and events in Aldershot, Windsor, Pirbright, various barracks in London and the Guards Depot in Caterham.