No. 1 Company, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Pirbright, August 1926
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-21-9

Description

Panoramic photograph of No. 1 Company, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Pirbright, August 1926. They pose for the image in four long rows in front of some trees. The men are wearing their scarlet tunics, white pouch belts and forage caps. The three officers in the middle of the front row are wearing dark blue braided undress frock coats, forage caps, white gloves and with their swords hanging from their sword belts. Taken by H R Gwyer Gibbs of Pirbright. Some of the front row are named as (from left to right): L/Cpl Croft; L/Cpl Connolly; L/Cpl Edwards; L/Cpl Garner; Cpl ?; L/Sgt Woodley; L/Sgt Barker; L/Sgt Cheeseman; Sgt Bean; Sgt Scott; CSM Stopp (?); Lt H R H Davies; Capt W M Stourton; R C E Herbert; CQMS Garnett; Sgt Higgins; Sgt Reid; L/Sgt Taylor; L/Cpl Wilson, E; L/Cpl Wilson, H; L/Cpl Scott; L/Cpl Ba..(?); L/Cpl Putten (?). 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.