'14th Company Grenadier Guards Winners of Guards Depot Inter-Company Cross-Country Challenge Cup, Jan 1949.'
Photograph, by G and H Bunce, Caterham, Surrey, 1949.
Rear row (from left to right): Guardsmen D Gravenor, P Hancy, A Dunn, W Bailey and I Binch; middle row (left to right): Guardsmen R Pickett, A Langley, C Jeanes, G Thorpe, L Ralph, C Leeson, I McKinnon, H Mudd and J Begg; front row (left to right): Corporal J Bailey, Sergeant D McMahon, Company Sergeant Major F Giles, Major R G S Rasch, Lieutenant H Hamilton-Dalrympe; Sergeant J Biggenden (Trainer); Corporals D Drake and W WIlliams. Td.S C Gunn and Td.S D Graves marked as absent).
The abbreviation 'Td.S' stands for Trained Soldier. Foot Guards had designated soldiers within a squad who acted as demonstrators for the squad's non-commissioned instructors.
From the personal album of Sergeant Biggenden, Grenadier Guards, 1930-1951, part of the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 2017-09-7-22-27
Copyright/Ownership
Copyright: G and H Bunce
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2017-09-7-22-27