Group of Scots Guards off-duty

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Photograph of Scots Guards at Chelsea Barracks, taken by Miss Broom, c. 1904.

The guardsmen are wearing white drill jackets and 'broderick' caps, with some of them in fatigue dress. Enjoying some off-duty time, they are playing a game of cards. The soldier in the middle of the back row wearing an elaborately decorated tunic is a drummer.

Miss Broom was an enthusiastic amateur photographer with a particular penchant for photographing soldiers in barracks in London.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-289-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1954.354
• Date: c. 1904
  
• Material: Paper
  Photograph
  
• Dimensions: 105 mm H x 151 mm W
  
• What: Photograph
  
• Subject: Photographs
  
• Who: Miss Broom (photographer)
  Scots Guards (British land forces)
  
• Where: England, London, Chelsea Barracks (depicted)
  
• Event:
• Description: Scots Guards - Photograph of guardsmen in white jackets and broderick caps, c. 1904, taken by Miss Broom.
  
• References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
  • Wood, Stephen The Scottish soldier. Manchester: Archive Publications in association with the National Museums of Scotland, 1987 
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