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Photograph of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards posing for the image on a rocky hillside in South Africa during the Boer War, 1900-1902 (c). The large group sit or stand wearing khaki drill uniform with pith helmets, and are holding their rifles. Three soldiers on the right hand side of the image have the Regimental Colour rolled up on their laps, and there are two drums on the ground in the centre. To the right on horseback is Surgeon Caption John "Uncle" H E Austin, Royal Army Medical Corps. Three of the officers in the front centre of the image are named as Lt John Arnold C Quilter, Maj Robert Scott-Kerr and Lt Charles E Corkran. 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.

Boer War (1899-1902)