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Photograph of 18 members 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 group sit or stand in two rows, wearing khaki drill uniform with pith helmets, and are mostly holding their rifles. Three of the officers are named as Lt John Arnold C Quilter, Maj Robert Scott-Kerr and 2/Lt Montagu Brownlow Parker. Sgt Maj Robinson and Colour Sergeant Frederick Aston (seated in the front row, far left) are also named. 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)