NAM.2017-09-7-77-114

Copy photograph of the winning team in the Palestine Command Association Football Competition from the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Palestine, 1946-48 (c). The team pose for the image on a field in two rows with the small trophy on a plinth or table in front of them. The ten team members (one is absent from the image) are wearing sports clothes, with the five officers and non-commissioned officers sitting in the centre wearing battle dress and peaked caps. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Gdsm. R Bumpstead; L/Cpl D Haylett; Gdsm. R Briggs; Loc/Sgt J Buck; Gdsm. L Cowling; Loc/Sgt S Jillings; Gdsm. K Ashcroft; Sergt S Galley Front Row: Gdsm. R Dare; R.S.M. H Wood DCM; Major C. B. Frederick; Lieut-Colonel H.R.H. Davies (Commanding Officer); Capt A N Breitmeyer (Adjutant); Sergt J Lowe (Sports Secretary); C.S.M. J Bignell Member of Team absent from photograph: L/Cpl I Gray From a photograph album of 135 photographs; album entitled: ‘3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards 1930-1960’, showing parades, portraits, and group images, taken mainly in Egypt, North Africa, Italy and Palestine.