Photographs of Joseph Whitham

Item

Title

Photographs of Joseph Whitham

Identifier

8884.cpd

Subject

Whitham, Joseph

Abstract

Joseph Whitham
Enlisted: September 1914
Demobilised: June 1919
Period September 1914 to September 1916 with 2/1st Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, No. 4 Troop, C Squadron. Regimental No. 3648.
and during those two years quartered at Regimental Depot in Manchester, also Southport; Kendal, Jillicoulby & Ladybank nr Cupar.

Period September 1916 to June 1919 with 2nd & 8th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. On active service in Macedonia, finishing at Batumn, a Russian fort on the Black Sea.
Regimental number 25763. D Company, Transport Section.

Editor's Comment:
Photograph of Pte. Whitham in the uniform of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry. Note the 'broad arrow', signifying government ownership, shaved into the horse's coat.

Date

August 1914 - September 1916

Date Created

1914-08-01

Temporal Coverage

1916-09-30

Source

Photograph

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

number of pages

4

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Richard Marshall (Oxford Central Library Submission Day 10th March 2008)
Gordon H. Whitham

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford