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Description: | Image shows A Company, 23rd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment (Home Guard) at Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss, Commercial Road, Wolverhampton. Taken between 1939 and 1945.
Front row right to left: 4th Ernie Gutteridge; 5th Jack Raffertey; 7th George Lunn; 8th Samuel Fullwood (depositor's uncle)
Second row right to left: 3rd Bill Howell; 12th Jim Watton
Third row right to left: 3rd Joe Cartwright
Back row right to left: 2nd Paddy Tierney; 3rd William Croxford (depositor's uncle)
6th Isaac Fullwood (depositor's father)
The first headquarters for the 23rd Battalion was based at the Black Horse Hotel, Thompson Avenue, Wolverhampton. The Battalion relocated to the Park Hall, Goldthorn Estate. The Lieutenant Colonel was Mr Gameson-Lane who was the Headmaster at the Royal School Penn Road, Wolverhampton. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Civil defence Photograph Photographs Second World War (1939-1945) | Temporal: | 1940s | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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