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Description: | Mounted photographic prints relating to the military service of H E Wootton with the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps, the 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers during 1918 - 1919 and as a captain of the Home Guard in 1944. The first series of photographs cover 'A' Company, 14 Officer Cadet Battalion at Netherfield, Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire between June and September 1917. There are group photographs of the four platoons (Wootton was in No.4 Platoon) and the staff of the training school (all are named). Photographs from Wootton's time as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion are more extensive, including: group photographs of the officers, warrant officers and sergeants of the battalion; officers and men of 'B' Company (including Wootton - seated 6th from left); the battalion band and officers on a musketry course at Pachmarhi in 1919. Other photographs from this period of Wootton's service show the landscape of the North West Frontier of India, including the Tangi Gorge, entrance to the Khyber Pass and the road out of Peshawar; also camel, mule and motor transport columns - including a mass of pack mules about to go through the Khyber Pass during the Third Afghan War in 1919. Other subjects include the British camp below Ali Masjid Fort at the narrowest point of the Khyber Pass and other camps and fortified posts on the North West Frontier around the time of the Third Afghan War, including Landi Kotal, Dakka Camp and Fort Rabat. There is also a photograph of a hilltop Lewis gun post manned by Gurkhas; one of a frontier scout with three Afridis or Afghans; one of a tribal Jirga at Kaniguran in Waziristan and a posed portrait study of an Afghan tribal sentry. A small number of additional photographs cover the activities of pack transport with the Derajat Column in Waziristan. Many of these photographs are by Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973) who operated out of Peshawar and accompanied British forces during the Third Afghan War. Finally, the Home Guard photograph shows the staff of HQ Charnwood Sector in 1914. Wootton is seated extreme left, front row.
Thirty six photographic prints mounted on board showing British troops and scenes on the North West Frontier of India, 1918-1918. One photographic print mounted on board showing a group of Homg Guard officers in 1914, names of each individual handwritten on the mount below photographs. One booklet titled: "14 Officer Cadet Battalion - 'A' Company - Netherfield, Berkhamsted, June to September MCMXVII"containing four double pages with group photographs of officer cadets attached and lists of printed names of each individual. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | India 1919-1939 Home Guard British Army 1919-1939 Third Afghan War 1919 Training British Army 1914-1918 British Army British Home Front 1939-1945 British Army 1939-1945 Empire & Commonwealth South Wales Borderers Brecknock Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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