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Image shows volunteers of the Leeds Royal Artillery Company during manoeuvres in Wetherby between 1898 and 1899, who went on to fight in the Boer War. The Volunteer Artillery Corps was formed in Leeds in 1860, and later the Volunteer Act of 1863 offered some financial inducement and standardisation to the volunteer forces. Here the volunteers are posing alongside their field artillery, mobile guns on gun carriages pulled by horses. The name of the sergeant was Varty. The original Post Office is located at the rear of the group. A new Post Office was built at the other side of the Market Place in 1909-10. The shop on the right is Thornton's Draper at 21 Market Place, later to become Wardman's. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Market Place Royal Artillery Company | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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