QI share here a photo of my maternal grandfather George Lacey being presented to King George VI and I am hoping for some help in identifying the occasion. George Lacey is the tall man in the pin striped suit second from the left of the group of civilians.
I posted the photo on Facebook last year and someone advised that the location is the Stonehouse Barracks of The Royal Marines in Plymouth but I don’t have any more information. The photo was given to me by my mother but she was unable to tell me any more about it.
George was born in 1890 in Southampton and lived there until his death in 1960. For most of his working life he was a Merchant Seaman, working for the London & South Western Railway, later Southern Railway as a Fireman on their cross channel mail steamers from Southampton Docks.