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Various Officers,WW1.../35
© IWM (HU 93570) Lieutenant Colonel Weston (1867-1944) was educated at Marlborough College and Sandhurst. He entered the Army in 1888 and served on the North West Frontier, India (1897 - 1998). During the First World War, he was Mentioned in Despatches and wounded twice. Lt Col Weston retired from the Army in 1919.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 121586) Lieutenant Archibald John Denroche-Smith. Unit: 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars. Death: 13 September 1914 Killed in action near Vandresse, leading his troop during the Battle of the Aisne Western Front. Son of Florence Elizabeth Denroche-Smith, of Balhary, Meigle, Perthshire, and the late Thomas Denroche Smith (Bengal Civil Servant). http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/466/88...at=photographs © IWM (HU 121473) Lieutenant George Gordon de Coursy Drury 2/370. Unit: New Zealand Field Artillery, attached to 3rd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers and then to King's African Rifles. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (Q 9352) Lieutenant General Sir Travers Edwards Clarke, Quartermaster-General of the BEF, France from 23rd December 1917 and some of his staff at GHQ Montreuil, 22th September 1918. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...5378/large.jpg © IWM (Q 23604) Major-General Travers Clarke, the Quartermaster General. Near Montreuil, 22 September 1918. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...6158/large.jpg © IWM (HU 119385) Second Lieutenant Jack Turner. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Tank Corps. Death: 12 April 1918 Western Front. Son of Douglas and Katherine Baron Turner, of 27, Park Drive South, Whiteinch, Glasgow. Details confirmed in CWCG with date of death as 13th April 1918 name as John rather than Jack. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 121881) Second Lieutenant Humphrey Ned Falcy MC. Unit: 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 21 November 1916, Western Front. son of G. L. and Elizabeth Falcy. of Cranmer House, Ramsgate. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM Q 4483 King Nicholas I Petrovic of Montenegro and Lieutenant General Sir Edmiund Henry Hynman Allenby at Bryas, North of St. Pol, November 1916. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...0569/large.jpg © IWM (Q 66199) Officers of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. At rear: Lieutenant E.G. Stafford-King-Harman; Centre: Lieut, (later Lieut.Col.) the Viscount Gough. Captain (later Colonel) The Hon. T.E. Vesey. Lieut (later Field Marshal) The Bari Alexander of Tunis). The Hon. H.R.L.G. Alexander, and Lieut, (later Colonel) J.S.N. Fitzgerald. Seated: Lieutenant (later Major) C.A.S. Walker. Photograph taken at Wellington Barracks a day or two before the 1st Battalion left for France and Belgium on 12th August 1914. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...9813/large.jpg http://ourheroes.southdublinlibraries.ie/ga/node/16204
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2Lt. Falcy.
He appears to have previously served in one of the four battalions converted to pioneer battalions in early 1915. They were the 14th (Service) Bn., the 17th (Service) Bn.(North Eastern Railway Pioneers), the 18th (Service) Bn.(1st Tyneside Pioneers) and the 19th (Service) Bn.(2nd Tyneside Pioneers).
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