Description:
Black and white phtograph showing the river Wye ford and ferry with the Olde Ferrie Inne pictured in the background of the picture at upper Symonds Yat in Herefordshire, England, UK. The ferryman can be seen pulling the ferry across the river using a large rope.
Description:
A black and white photograph of a Major wearing a frock coat and carrying a sword. His cap badge is the Coldstream Guard. He is sat in front of a tree and there is a marquee in the background. See also G36-541-16.
Description:
A black and white photograph of the Band of the Coldstream Guards posed with their instruments. The setting appears to be a public park and in the background is a tree and large tent. There are also a few civilians watching in the background.
Title:
Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers being inspected
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1888-1899]
Description:
A black and white photograph of eight Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers and a sergeant being inspected by a Major with a Captain extreme left. The men are wearing helmets, scarlet tunics with white piping and leather gaiters and are carrying their rifles. They have white leather pouch belts and white belts with Rifles snake clasps while the officers have a circular clasp with regimental title (Source: Victorian Wars Forum).The officers both have drawn swords.They are standing in a grassy area with a high trellis fence behind them.
Title:
Senior NCO of the Shropshire Yeomanry outside Bishop's Palace, Hereford
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1898-1904]
Description:
A black and white photograph of an NCO with a waxed moustache as in G36-287-01, standing outside of Bishop's Palace, Hereford. He is in dress uniform of the Shropshire Yeomanry with a plumed helmet, gauntlets and a sword. He is wearing a medal and rank insignia of a Quartermaster-Sergeant on the right sleeve. On his belt buckle is a leopard's head.
Title:
Senior NCO of the Shropshire Yeomanry outside Bishop's Palace, Hereford
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1898-1904]
Description:
A black and white photograph of a Shropshire Yeomanry NCO wearing a pill box hat with a waxed moustache. He is wearing a white sash and a fob watch, also breeches, boots and spurs and carrying a stick and gloves. In the background is the gatehouse of the Bishop’s Palace, Hereford, which was opposite Bustin Studios. On the right is a young girl looking on.
Description:
A black and white photograph of a rank and file soldier. He is wearing a plumed helmet, tunic and belt with the loggerhead (leopard) emblem of the Shropshire Yeomanry. He is carrying a sword and is standing in the back garden of a house with an open French window behind him.
Title:
Senior NCO of the Shropshire Yeomanry outside Bishop's Palace, Hereford
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1898-1904]
Description:
A black and white photograph of an NCO with a waxed moustache as in G36-287-01 seated in a chair. He is in dress uniform of Shropshire Yeomanry holding a plumed helmet and with gauntlets and a sword.
Title:
Major of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1897-1899]
Description:
A black and white photograph of a Major of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps wearing a helmet, pouch belt with whistle and chain and spurs and carrying a sword with a sabretache. He is standing in a cobbled yard in front of two large wooden gates.
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Description:
A black and white photograph of a young officer wearing spurs and holding a riding crop, astride a wooden chair. He is dressed in breeches, puttees and boots with the cap badge of the Shropshire Yeomanry and numbers or letters on his epaulettes.
Description:
A black and white photograph of two soldiers in service dress, one seated one standing, both wearing cap badges of the Shropshire Yeomanry, leather bandoliers, lanyards, breeches and puttees. The photograph was taken in the studio.
Title:
A group of Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers at camp, Broomy Hill, Hereford
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1872-1875]
Description:
A black and white photograph of officers of the First Administrative Battalion Hereford Rifle Volunteers at their annual camp at Broomy Hill, Hereford. Two are wearing scarlet jackets with black facings and with old style, short shakos (extreme left and second right). The number 7 denotes the 7th Battalion, based in Kington. The soldier on the left seems to be a quarter-master sergeant with four inverted chevrons on each cuff. The others are wearing frogged patrol jacket and flat square peaked forage caps and kepis. Some are wearing miniature medals,all have the cap badge of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers. Source: Victorian Wars Forum.
Title:
Soldiers of the First Administrative Battalion of Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1875-79]
Description:
A black and white photograph of a group of 11 soldiers in front of tents. Their kepis have plates on the front surmounted by a ball. They are wearing full dress uniforms which would have been red with blue trousers. Tunics are buttoned to the neck with a stand-up collar, white belts fastened with a snake clasp and with a leather pouch. One has the insignia of a sergeant, another a corporal. They are shod in hobnail boots and are sitting on, variously, an upturned bucket and a large coffee pot. Their rifles with socket bayonets are stacked up next to them.
Title:
Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers at an annual Summer Camp
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1880]
Description:
A black and white photograph of a group of Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers.The two sergeants in the back row have the 4-pointed Proficiency Star and are distinguished by their white pouch belts. The style of the round forage caps worn by the sergeants and the glengarry caps worn by the rank and file suggest a date of around 1880 (Source: Victorian Wars Forum). There are also three men in mufti, two dressed in boating blazers and two of the men have their dogs with them.
Title:
Three Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer officers with an honorary colonel
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1897-1899]
Description:
A black and white photograph of three officers of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps in front of a bell tent with an honorary colonel. One of the officers wears cavalry boots with spurs and a sabretache. They are all in helmets and pouch belts with whistle and chain and carrying sword . The older man wears a kepi and is seated in a wheeled chair.
Title:
Four NCOs of the First Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1898 – 1904 ]
Description:
A black and white photograph of four casually posed NCOs of the First Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps in slouch hats, service dress tunics, puttees and boots and holding rifles. They have insignia of (left to right) warrant officer or colour sergeant, and three sergeants. Their tunics have arm flashes of HF1, suggesting the first battalion.
Title:
Two soldiers of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1890-1899]
Description:
A black and white studio photograph of two soldiers, one seated one standing wearing field service caps.One with a swagger cane, both smoking and wearing forage caps and puttees. The seated soldier has the shoulder flash 1HF showing that he is from the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. See also G36-223-01 to G36-223-04
Title:
Officer of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Type:
Image
Date Published:
[1875-1880]
Description:
Black and white photograph of an officer in scarlet jacket with a sword seated in front of tent. His shako is surmounted with ball and chin strap and is on the table beside him. It appears to have the badge of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers . The furniture is domestic and he is seated in front of a bell tent.
