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Photograph of five officers from the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards posing for an image taken on the verandah of the North Front Guard Room, Gibraltar, 1899 (c). The North Front Guard Room sat at the extreme northern entrance point of the British fortification lines, controlling access between the Rock of Gibraltar and the neutral ground towards Spain. The five officers are named as (from left to right): 2/Lt the Honourable Montagu Brownlow Parker; Lt Ivo Arthur Broadwood; 2/Lt Humphrey "Stucs" St Leger Stucley; Lt Francis Leopold V Swaine and 2/Lt John Arnold C Quilter. Parker and Swaine are wearing light-coloured civilian suits with sunhats, whilst Broadwood and Quilter are in striped cricket blazers and caps. 2/Lt Stucley is wearing khaki uniform with sash and pith helmet. From a photograph album of 111 photographs entitled '2nd Battalion 1897-1909', relating to the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the UK, South Africa and Gibraltar from 1897 to 1909. Mostly group photos and individual portraits.