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Description: | Album with affixed prints detailing the service of an unknown soldier of the 12th (Sheffield City) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment (Sheffield Pals) in pre-deployment training of 1914-1915 in England. This album contains many informal images of named individuals within the Battalion, from senior officers to enlisted men. Specific scenes include:
A pair of captured German guns on display in Fitzallen Square, Sheffield; members of the battalion undergoing training at Redmires Camp in Sheffield (c late-1914 - early-1915). Training images taken at the camp include entrenching and resting whilst on Burbage Moor in the Peak district; scenes during a 60 mile, three-day march; manning an 'outpost' on Lady Canning's Plantation, Sheffield; the Machine Gun Section using a pre-war Vickers Gun; bayonett drill and the construction of bayonet trenches. The unit then moved to Cannock Chase for further training including what appears to be scenes from a mock-battle; including rather goulishly the mock-execution of 'a spy'. scenes in camp on Rippon range (July - September 1915) including at the firing range (working with the mechanical targets).
Camp life at Redmires is seen including 'fatigues' or general duties, hut cleaning, white-washing stones, 'bed-filling' parade; pay parade; road building; also scenes inside a 30 man hut at an unknown location but possibly at either Redmires Camp or maybe on Cannock Chase; loading of a train for departure from Cannock Chase to go to Rippon; scenes at Rippon Camp; a field kitchen issuing a meal; leaving Rippon to go to Wilton on Salisbury Plain, showing a march to the station and entraining at Rippon and arrival at Wilton.
Sports and leisure including a five mile cross country race and other athletic pursuits and playing chess. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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