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NAM.2017-09-7-61-45

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Photograph of officers from the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, posing for the image in four rows outside a building, possibly Wellington Barracks, London, 1900 (c). They are wearing their dark blue frock coats, sashes and peaked caps, with their swords hanging from their sword belts. A black dog stands to the right of the images. They are named as (from left to right): Top Row: Lt Arthur O W C Weld-Forester; Lt Laurence R V Colby; Lt Edward Seymour; Lt Hon. Montagu B Parker; Lt Eustace B Loraine Middle Row: Lt Hon. George H Douglas-Pennant; Capt Frederick Rudolph, Earl of Cavan; Capt William S B Blackett; 2/Lt Roland H Hermon-Hodge; Lt George D Jeffreys; Capt George L Bonham; Lt Lord Ardee; Capt & Adt C Corkran; Lt John Arthur C Quilter Front Row: Lt Montague R A Cholmeley (standing); QM &Hon Lt William G A Garton; Capt Edward G Verschoyle; Lt Robert Gordon-Gilmour; Lt Col Francis Lloyd; Maj Robert Scott-Kerr; Capt Hon. William E Cavendish; Capt William Murray-Thriepland; Maj Wilfred G H Marshall (standing) Bottom Row: Lt Alasdair H Murray; 2/Lt Hon. Lucius P Cary; 2/Lt Guy T L Tryon; Lt George R Houstoun-Boswall; unnamed black dog. 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.

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