Photo of men from the 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on parade
| Title |
Photo of men from the 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on parade
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| Subject |
Carr, Charles Woodward
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| Notes |
Charles W. Carr is standing in the rear rank, second from left. Charles' son (Tony Carr) thinks this photo was taken in Gloucester. The postcard's postmark is Epping 26 April 1915, and Charles writes that "we are going back to Chelmsford" to his sister in Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire (now Powys), Wales.
Part of large collection of photos and memoribilia relating to Serjeant 3091 (later 240965) Charles Woodward Carr, 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment - kept by Mrs Gill Porter and Mr Tony Carr of their father. Editor's Comment: Men parading in the emergency Pattern 1914 infantry equipment, with the Japanese Type 38 Arisaka rifle, purchased by the government on the outbreak of the war as a temporary training weapon. |
| Item date |
26th April 1915
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| Creation place |
Gloucester
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| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Total number of pages |
2
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| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Alun Edwards (Powys Archives submissions day)
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| Contributed on the behalf of |
Tony Carr
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Collection
Citation
“Photo of men from the 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on parade,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 18, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9174.
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