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Various Officers,WW1.../37
© IWM (HU 93470)
Lieutenant Newman enlisted with the Queen's Westminster Rifles on the outbreak of War in August 1914. He was posted to the Western Front on 20 February 1915. Following the Battle of Hooge, he was invalided home and acquired a commission in the North Staffordshire Regiment. Lt Newman returned to active service on the Western Front in July 1916 and saw action during the Battle of the Somme. He was killed, aged 24, at Gavrelle during the Battle of Arras on 28 April 1917. Lt Newman is buried at Aubigny. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 96636)Click on the pic...for the cantle..... Lieutenant Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas Drumlanrig. Unit: 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Viscount FAKD Drumlanrig enlisted with the 1st Battalion, Royal Highlanders as a Second Lieutentant in January 1915. He served on the Western Front and was promoted to Lieutenant in October 1915 and to Captain in November 1917. During his service, he suffered from severe appendicitus, diptheria and temporary paralysis. Following the recommendation of the Medical Board, he was granted permission by the War Office to travel to the United States of America, during his leave, in 1916. Upon his return to the Western Front he received a gun shot wound to the leg. He applied to relinquish his commission, on account of wounds received in action, in November 1919. In 1927, as the Marquess of Queensbury, he resigned his commission from the Regular Army Reserve of Officers. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205026083 © IWM (HU 113345) Second Lieutenant Percy Barlow. Unit: 19th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment).(Liverpool Pals)..... Death: 15 November 1917. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...6603/large.jpg © IWM (HU 118478) Second Lieutenant Cyril George Notton. Unit: King’s Own Norfolk Yeomanry, Attached to 12th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 03 December 1917 Killed in action near Jerusalem, Palestine. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 127652) Lieutenant Ewen Holmes Humphrey James Wilson. Unit: 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 08 September 1914 At Sablonnieres 1 Battle of the Marne Western Front. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (Q 103699) Lieutenant General Sir John French in full dress uniform, 1904. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...9565/large.jpg © IWM (Q 7361) Soldier of the Royal Scots reading poster of the "Iddy-Umpties", 2nd Army Signal Company Concert Party, in Cologne, 8 February 1919. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...3474/large.jpg Anyone knows the significance of the star on the shoulder © IWM (Q 68087) Flight Lieutenant Alan Jerrard VC, Royal Flying Corps. Place and date of deed, Italy, 30 March 1918. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs
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