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Photograph captioned: ‘Tug of War Team, 130 Stone, No 2 Company’, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, as they pose for a photograph in front of a building, probably in Gibraltar, 1899. The 15 soldiers pose in two rows with the coiled tug-of-war rope on the ground in front of them. The ten men from the team are wearing white t-shirts with C/Sgt Teece wearing a white drill jacket and pillbox cap. The two reserve team members stand on either side wearing their scarlet tunics and pillbox caps. In the middle are two officers wearing their dark blue frock coats and peaked caps. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: L/Sgt Lloyd; Pte C Curran; C/Sgt Jabez Teece (Coacher); Pte G Clayton; Pte J Stevens; Pte H Wood; Pte W Thomas Front Row: Pte W Cole (Reserve); Pte J Grant; Pte T Keel; Capt St John H Coventry; Lt Francis L V Swaine; Pte A Day; L/Cpl Bailey; Pte H Lock (Reserve). From an album of 89 photographs related to the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in Gibraltar and Morocco, 1899. Mainly images showing other ranks group portraits, sports teams, marching, rifle drill.