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Description: | Two men in army uniform stand in front of a B-type bus during the First World War. The man on the left is Walter John Cornell (1885-1983). He worked for the London General Omnibus Company as a bus driver.
Cornell worked at the Cricklewood and Putney bus garages before the war. When war was declared he joined up. Because the army was desperately short of transport, Cornell took his B-type bus to the Front. Over 1,000 B-types like the one in the photograph went into military service in this way.
Cornell spent the war transporting troops to the Front. He was awarded the 1914 'Mons' Star. Mons was the first major engagement against the Germans on the Western Front. It began on 23 August 1914. Cornell was also awarded the 1914-20 British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal.
By the time of his retirement in 1950, Cornell had become a pointsman at Morden station. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Copyright unknown - Collection on London's Transport Museum | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 1914-1918 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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