Shorncliffe 1864
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-1-93

Description

A large group portrait depicting Grenadier Guards in full military uniform, including tunics, rifles or swords, and bearskin hats. Eleven officers and the Quartermaster are standing in the foreground with the regimental colours and are identified beneath the photograph as: The Honourable William Henry Peregrine Carington, Lt Col Edward George Hibbert, Capt Henry Osborne Gould, Lt Alexander Caulfield, Lt Robert Stopford Sholto Douglas, Lord George Pratt, Col George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, The Honourable Frederick Arthur Stanley, Capt Charles Fludyer, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (Edward George Henry Montagu), Quarter Master Edward Bassindale, Lt Col Charles Napier Sturt. From an album of 202 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive compiled by or presented to Surgeon Major James John Marjoribanks Wardrop. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album Surgeon Major Wardrup [sic], The Regiment, 1858-1868’, but covers the period 1854-1872. Mainly officers portraits. Grenadier Guards reference number 2.