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Description: | Small, bound-album with moleskin cover compiled by an unknown serviceman, a private of the 1/5th Battalion the London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) during the early months of the First World War at Ploegsteert, Belgium and later as an officer probably in the 1/24th Battalion, London Regiment at Floringhem and in March 1918 in Ireland. Includes:
LRB machine gun section at exercise in Charterhouse Square, central London (summer 1914)
LRB Squad drilling in Charterhouse Square, central London (summer 1914)
Portraits of Riflemen Grigg, Turner and Harvey-Smith, and around a campfire at Crowborough (late summer 1914)
A tent group at Bisley Camp (summer 1914)
Rfn R W Turner at Ploesgsteert standing on the Wareneton Road (Hants Road) (autumn/winter 1914)
Rfn M H Grigg at Bois de Ploesgsteert, standing on the Hants Road (autumn/winter 1914)
Men of 1st Rifle Brigade, Hunter Avenue, Ploesgsteert Wood, (Xmas 1914)
Tree broken in two by shell fire, Ploegsteert Wood (winter 1914)
LRB Officers in the Hants Trench including Captain Large, Captain Somers-Smith and Lieutenant Furse (winter 1914)
Telephone at dug-out in the Hants Trench, resting in a dugout in North Trench (winter 1914)
Scenes of English and Germans (Saxon regiments) fraternising during the Christmas truce (winter 1914) (images already in the museum's collections)
Medical group from No 3 General Hospital, Le Treport, France
Hospital train at Le Treport for Bolougne
A 'Courduroy Path' through Ploesgsteert Wood
East Lancashire Farm and Red House behind the trenches at Ploegsteert
LRB Graveyard at Ploegsteert
Holt Corner, Somerset Trench, Ploegsteert
Headquarters trench, Essex Trench, Ploegsteert
Destroyed civic hospital
No 3 Coy HQ in Essex Trench
Armourer Sergeant Strange and pioneer Sergeant McVeagh
Lance Corporal Rice (nicknamed 'Pudden')
Sergeant Belcher VC
Royal Field Artillery battery passing through Ploegsteert
various souvenirs and mementoes passed from the German troops to the LRB during the Christmas Truce, 1914
Anti-Aircraft gun near Ploegsteert
Breastwork No 23, Hunter Avenue, Ploegsteert wood
Officers at Purfleet, 1916
Capt A G Herbert MC (1st London Regiment) and Lt F D Adam (3rd Rifle Brigade)
Billet at Curragh
Camp at O'Callaghan Mills, County Clare
Compiler with Lt Sharpe of the 1st Kings Own Royal Lancashires
Billet at Lynch's at O'Callaghan Mills
Group photograph: Lt Gould MC (1st Somerset Regt), Lt Sparrow (1/8th Essex Regt), Lt Sharpe (1st Kings Own Royal Lancashires), Capt Atkin (1st Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry), Lt Calkin (1/8th Essex Regt), Captain Turner (5th Royal West Kents
Portrait Lt Sparrow, (1/8th Essex Regt) and company pet (a kid goat)
Lt Sharpe and his patrol at Feakle
Portrait of Sergeant Garvey of the Royal Irish Constabulary plus a group portrait
In Belgium at Floringhem with 1/24th London Regiment
Battalion officers mess at Allouagne
Group of officers of 1/24th London Regiment including: Capt Keeble MC, Capt Goosey MC, Captain Turner MC Lt Morgan and Lt Kelly.
Lt Ross MC posing next to 1250 lb aerial bombs at 'La Pierette Dump' near Bethune
Givenchy craters, damage at La Basee canal, Cuinchy, Tower Bridge at Loos, Merville
Graves of Capt Richardson and 2nd Lietenant Coates of 1/24th London Regiment at The Bluff, Ypres (killed during the Battle of Messines
Portrait of Captain H W Daniel MC of the 13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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