Photo of men from the 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on parade

Item

Title

Photo of men from the 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on parade

Identifier

9186.cpd

Subject

Carr, Charles Woodward

Abstract

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.

Date

26th April 1915

Date Created

1915-04-26

Source

Postcard

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

number of pages

2

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Alun Edwards (Powys Archives submissions day)
Tony Carr

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford