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Description: | Album of photographs and photographic postcards and some loose prints relating to the service of Frank Leslie Down in the Army Service Corps during the First World War and following his demobilisation in 1919. These include a number taken whilst with 339 (Motor Transport) Company at Hungerford in 1915 showing the unit's vehicles, workshop and cookhouse. The unit's band, of which Down was a member, also features with photographs of them practicing, on guard duty, leading a march through the town and playing at a military funeral. There is also a photograph of a road traffic accident where an ASC 3-ton lorry has reversed into a staff car and partially pushed the car through a shop window. Also included in the collection are group photographs of 339 (MT) Company outside the main entrance to Bulwell Hall in Nottinghamshire, taken in 1915, one of these includes all members of No.4 Section. Other group photographs include the band of 607 (MT) Company, ASC, at Bridgewater in 1915; Royal Army Medical Corps personnel at Bulford Camp in 1915; Members of 339 (MT) Company at Lillers and St Valery in France during 1916, including one showing NCOs wearing sheepskin jerkins at Christmas 1916; members of the 51st Auxiliary Bus Company, ASC, at Gamaches in 1918 and the unit's band in 1919. Additional First World War material includes a photograph of the remains of a Daimler 3-ton lorry in a workshop at Corbie following a direct hit by a German shell during the Battle of the Somme; a Christmas card sent by officers of the 51st Auxiliary Omnibus Company to the men of the unit and photographs of Queen Mary's Military Hospital, Whalley, Blackburn and the Auxiliary Military Hospital, Rawtenshall, Lancashire. Also from the latter hospital are portrait photographs of four soldiers (including Frank Down) wearing hospital blue uniforms (Down broke an arm in August 1918 and spent time in the hospital at Rawtenshall). There are also a small number of picture postcards (sent or received by Down during WWI) showing a Boulogne bound boat leaving Folkestone harbour; the Ecole Superieure de Jennes Tilles in Amiens, which was used as a billet by troops; the Place et Jardin St Denis in Amiens; the Basilica at Albert (before and during WWI) and L'Avenue du Chateau, Parc de Maisons at Laffitte.
Post war/civilian material in the collection includes a photograph dated 1919 and captioned 'Demobbed' showing a group of men, including Frank Down, in civilian dress at Beeston; holiday photographs taken at Skegness between 1920-1922; the camp of the Nottingham Battalion of the Boys Brigade at Skegness in 1922; portraits of family, friends and former army comrades and wartime photographs of girls including one signed by Clothilde in Amiens and dated 27 May 1917. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Western Front 1914-1918 British Army 1914-1918 Transport British Army Army Service Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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