Sergeant Major, 13th Middlesex (Queen's) Volunteer Rifle Corps (Westminster), 1895 (c)

Glass negative, W Gregory and Company, 51 Strand, London, 1895 (c).

This corps was originally raised in 1860 as the 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, but was renumbered in 1880. The unit was one of the largest rifle volunteer units in London. In 1908 it became a battalion of the newly reorganised London Regiment, as part of the Territorial Force that was formed in that year.

The subjects in the photograph both wear the distinctive grey uniform of the Regiment, one of a number to do so and which became known as the 'Grey Brigade'.

One of a collection of 278 glass negatives associated with Gregory and Company, London, and F G O Stuart, 1895-1900 (c).