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Description: | A mixture of group and portrait photographs, the majority of which are in postcard form. Most of the portrait photographs are of soldiers thought to have been billeted with Mr A Parsons in Fleet, Hampshire. Parsons was a butcher in the town. The group photographs include one of 'B' Sub Section, 211 Battery, Royal Field Artillery, outside their hut at Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain; The football team of 5th (London) Field Ambulance in St Albans, January 1915; the rugby team of the Royal Army Medical Corps Training Centre, Crookham, Hampshire, 1916-1917 (including the information of their record 181 - 0 winning score); female impersonator and chorus line of the 69th Field Ambulance concert party, France, 28 December 1918. There is also a group photograph of a section from the Machine Gun Corps (plus one soldier from each of the York & Lancaster and Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiments). Finally, there is a studio portrait photograph of Dr Frere in the uniform of an officer of the Royal Army Medical Corps. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Home Front 1914-1918 Training 5th Field Ambulance British Army 1914-1918 69th Field Ambulance British Army Entertainment Sports Royal Army Medical Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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