Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg10

Village Recruits 

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Title Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg
Date 1916
Page number Unknown
Publisher Reading Standard
Description 224 pages bound volume
Horizon Number: 1246254

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VILLAGE RECRUITS.

BERKS A.S.C. ISSUING STAFF, composed of Reading men .
a card in f r o n t of t h e c e n t r a l f ig u r e r e a d s :

" I f m o t h e r could only see us n o w . "

EVERSLEY G IV E S ITS VOLUNTEERS
A F E S T I/E S E N D -O F F .
[ P . 0 . C o llie r.

FIRST NATIONAL RESERVISTS TO
VOLUNTEER TO GUARD GERMAN
P R IS O N E R S AT NEWBURY.

In the middle of this group is William Wood, A Crimean veteran who at the age of 82 became an amateur recruiting sergeant.