Dan , thanks for those nice pics. The second is definitely Grenadiers, but the first is I think not , despite the caption. The cap-badge looks more like the Coldstream.
Given their apparent height, they look like Guardsmen .
The Regulation certainly existed :
KR amended to 1 Aug 1914. para.1696 applying to all ranks, an exact quote:
"The hair of the head will be kept short. The chin and under lip will be shaved, but not the upper lip. Whiskers, if worn, will be of moderate length. "
It was finally rescinded thus , after the impossibility of imposing the rule on all the hundres of thousands of clean-shaven volunteers :~
[FONT="]As reported in The Times of 7th October 1916, common sense eventually prevailed and the regulation was revised:-[/FONT]
[FONT="]"An Army order issued last night directs that in paragraph I.696 of the King's Regulations the words "but not upper lip" shall be deleted. The paragraph originally read:- "The hair of the head will be kept short. the chin and under lip will be shaved, but not the upper lip. Whiskers, if worn, will be of moderate length.
So it looks like one of those Rules more honoured in the breach than the observance.
I should have written my original point better , to suggest that moustaches were somehow more typical of the "Old Contemptibles ".
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