The Battalion on Parade, Salisbury Plain

The Regimental Staff

Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Frederick Barclay (Commanding Officer), seated fourth from the left, front row.

Major Bertie Phillip Newbolt (Second in Command), seated third from the left, front row

Captain F.H.A. Leyborne-Popham (Adjutant), seated fifth from the left, front row

Major Reginald le Huquet, seated fourth from the left, front row

Seated second from the left appears to be the Battalion Transport Officer, which would make him Lieutenant Charles Chamier, MC, MID

Lieutenant and Quartermaster Joseph Archibald Martin Hislop, probably seated front row, second from the right

Regimental Sergeant Major 7171 Walter H. Major Headland, MC, seated front row, first left

Standing, first left is the battalion Pioneer Sergeant

Lieutenant J. H. G. Hunter (Medical Officer), seated far right on the front row

The battalion Pioneer Sergeant is standing far left

Next to him is the Sergeant Cook

The Officers

The Wasp (p242) lists the following officers went to France in 1915, who presumably comprise the group in this photograph:

Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Frederick Barclay (Commanding Officer), seated sixth from the left, front row.

Major Bertie Phillip Newbolt (Second in Command), seated fifth from the left, front row

Captain F.H.A. Leyborne-Popham (Adjutant), seated seventh from the left, front row

Major Reginald le Huquet, seated fourth from the left, front row

Captain Frederick Goulden Mackenzie (all Captains are seated on the front row)

Captain Richard Evelyn Horsford (all Captains are seated on the front row)

Captain Dennis Henry Blake (all Captains are seated on the front row)

Captain Garth Bignell (Killed) (all Captains are seated on the front row)

Captain Percy Alexander Irving (all Captains are seated on the front row)

Captain G. W. Courtney (all Captains are seated on the front row)

Lieutenant Walter Melville Wace, MC

Lieutenant Reginald Caunter Carthew, MC

Lieutenant G.D. Meiklereid

Lieutenant Arthur Tyler Hitch, DSO

Second Lieutenant Frederick Gerald Bazalgette Lucas, killed in August 1917

Second Lieutenant George Geoffrey C. Bull

Second Lieutenant Ronald Henry Rose, killed in April 1917

Second Lieutenant Ronald Herbert Columbine

Second Lieutenant Harold John Cunningham, MC

Second Lieutenant Edmund W. A. Peach

Second Lieutenant George Arthur Smith-Masters, the first officer death, killed by a sniper the month after this photo was taken

Second Lieutenant Walter Edwin Alwyn, MC

Second Lieutenant John Henry Addington Love

Second Lieutenant Ernest Dann, killed within months of the photograph being taken

Second Lieutenant John H.H. Browne

Second Lieutenant Sidney Herbert Davidson

Lieutenant Charles Chamier, MC, MID (Transport Officer)

Lieutenant J. H. G. Hunter (Medical Officer), seated far right on the front row

Lieutenant and Quartermaster Joseph Archibald Martin Hislop, probably seated front row, first on the left

The Warrant Officers and Sergeants

A good proportion of these men had seen service before the war; there is a liberal sprinkling of South African War medal ribbons, Long Service chevrons and proficiency badges among them.

Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Frederick Barclay (Commanding Officer) is seated sixth from the left, front row

Captain F.H.A. Leyborne-Popham (Adjutant), is seated seventh from the left, front row.

Regimental Sergeant Major 7171 Walter H. Major Headland, MC, is seated fifth from the left on the front row.

The Company Sergeant Majors complete much of the front (seated) row

The Battalion's Pioneer Sergeant is seated on the floor, second from the left.

The Drums

Captain F.H.A. Leyborne-Popham (Adjutant), is seated third from the right, front row.

The Band

Captain F.H.A. Leyborne-Popham (Adjutant), is seated fourth from the left, front row.

The Corporals

Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Frederick Barclay (Commanding Officer) is seated fifth from the left, front row

Captain F.H.A. Leyborne-Popham (Adjutant), is seated sixth from the left, front row.

Regimental Sergeant Major 7171 Walter H. Major Headland, MC, is seated fourth from the left on the front row.

The Grenadiers

Seated, centre, is the battalion Bombing Officer, although I have not established which of the Second Lieutenants he is to date.

The Stretcher Bearers

Lieutenant J. H. G. Hunter (Medical Officer) is seated in the centre

The Machine Gun Section

The Signallers

The Cooks

Number 1 Platoon

Major Reginald le Huquet, seated sixth from the left, front row

Number 2 Platoon

Major Reginald le Huquet, seated sixth from the left, front row

Number 3 Platoon

Major Reginald le Huquet, seated seventh from the left, front row

Regimental Sergeant Major 7171 Walter H. Major Headland, MC, is seated fourth from the left on the second seated row.

Number 4 Platoon

Major Reginald le Huquet, seated sixth from the left, front row

Number 5 Platoon

Number 6 Platoon

Number 7 Platoon

Number 8 Platoon

Number 9 Platoon

Number 10 Platoon

Number 11 Platoon

Second row from the bottom (first standing row), second from the left is someone you do not see that often in Great War photos. He also appears in a 6th Battalion Scouts group photo, but establishing an identity has - so far - been elusive. Any suggestions would be welcomed as he is the only soldier I have seen in the regiment so far with (presumably) colonial parent(s)?

Number 12 Platoon

Number 13 Platoon

Number 14 Platoon

Number 15 Platoon

Number 16 Platoon