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Photograph of the Brigade of Guards Depot winners who were in the London District Cross Country Championships, 1936. The 15 men are wearing sports kit, and pose with the Commandant (sitting in the centre of the front row) Maj W D Faulkner, Lt Fitzgerald and RSM A Brand. The three of them are wearing service dress and forage caps. 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 Smylie, (Irish Guards); Td.S C Steele, (Scots Guards); L/Sgt W Shanaham, (Irish Guards) Middle Row: L/Sgt C Hedditch, (Welsh Guards); L/Cpl F Kersey, (Coldstream Guards); T S Burcham, (Grenadier Guards); N Laurence, (Grenadier Guards); L/Cpl H Humphries, (Welsh Guards); L/Cpl Attenborough, (Grenadier Guards); L/Cpl L Simpson, (Coldstream Guards) Front Row: Rct W Morrison, (Scots Guards); RSM A J Brand; Major Walter Douglas Faulkner MC, (Commandant); Lieut & Asst/Adjt Dennis Henry FitzGerald; Td.S J Biggenden, (Grenadier 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.