Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 375
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Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 375 |
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Date | 1917 |
Page number | 375 |
Publisher | Unknown |
Description | Not available |
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2/4thBatt. ROYAL BERKS REGT.
After a thorough training at Epping and Chelmsford this Battalion went to the Front in May, 1916, and proved its worth in the Great Push, where it well maintained the traditions of the regt.
[photo, portrait] The late Pte. WILLIAM T. E. ANNETTS, 11, Amity St., Reading. - Died in training. - Aged 20.
[photo, group, exterior] THE BRASS AND REED BAND STATIONED AT CHELMSFORD.
[photo, group, exterior] THE SCOUTS AND SNIPERS ARE SHOWN ABOVE. Back row (reading from left to right): Ptes. Emmet, Mace, Wiggins, Garrod, Wicks, Thompson, Short. Middle row: Ptes. Cook, Elford, Day, Brewer, Coulson, Chivers, Bloomfield, Hopgood. Third row: Pte. Knott, Lce.-Corpl. Lindsay, Sergt. Taylor, Lieut. Holland, Corpl. Cave, Lce.-Corpl. Pinfield, Pte. Hancock, Pte. Upton. Front row: Ptes. Withers, Gregory, Booth, Benham.
[photo, group, exterior] THE BATTALION SIGNAL SECTION IN TRAINING. Back row (reading from left to right): Signallers Cowdery,Fisher, Withers, Lawrence, Brown, Hamblin. Centre: Signallers Lambourne, Simpson, Ferns, Reeves, White, Vines, Thorpe, Wellman. Front row: Signaller Smith, Lce.-Corpl. Underwood, Sergt. Fox, Lieut. White, F.M.J., Lce.-Corpl. Boshier, Signallers Penn and Green.