Photograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades
Item
Title
Photograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades
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Identifier
2674.jpg
GWA_0693_oxscan0021.jpg
Subject
Tallett, Kenneth Viner
Abstract
On the right, Kenneth Viner Tallett (1898-1987) was born Buckingham Street, Grandpont, Oxford was an apprentice printer (Bryans) until enlisting in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in January 1915. After training in Northampton and Essex he wet to France in the Arras region. He returned to England in 1918 and until demobilisation was an orderly at the Ashurst Military Hospital at Littlemore, Oxford, where he met and later married Mabel Taylor (my mother) ex R.A.O.C. Didcot/Milton Depot. Ken Tallett had three brothers - Horace, James, Kings Royal Rifles (killed at Arras 1917), Edward (Harry) civilian war work, and Ron (too young, but fought in WW2).
Date
1915
Date Created
1915-01-01
Temporal Coverage
1915-12-31
Source
Photograph
Medium
Photographic paper
Type
Photograph
Contributor
Everett Sharp
Kate Lindsay (Oxford Central Library Submission Day 10th March 2008)
Jim Tallett
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford