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Description: A black and white photograph of two men stood next to each other, on the right is a soldier in a single-breasted greatcoat and service dress hat with badge of King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. The older man on the left appears to be a country man with a Newgate Fringe beard, dressed in overcoat, double breasted jacket, muffler, and a Homburg hat. It looks bitterly cold and their expressions are sombre. In the background is the gatehouse of the Bishop’s Palace, Hereford, which was opposite Bustin Studios.

Description: Black and white half length photograph of officer wearing Service Dress cap with the crest of the City of Hereford (discontinued in 1915) also tunic, collar and tie with tie pin. Tunic has scalloped edge pockets on the breast and square pockets below the waist. On the reveres of the jacket are the badges of the Herefordshire Regiment. The jacket cuffs have a decorative lace work denoting rank, suggesting this was an early wartime photograph and that his rank was Second Lieutenant. He wears a Sam Browne belt, is resting on a cane, holding gloves and wearing a wristwatch.

Description: A black and white photograph of a group of officers outside a tent. On the left is a colonel in a frock coat, a lieutenant and a captain stand in the middle and another captain is seated on the right. The regimental officers would appear to be from (L to R) King's Shropshire Light Infantry, unknown Rifle Regiment and Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Description: A black and white photograph of a Midshipman in uniform consisting of a double-breasted jacket with distinctive flashes on the collar. His hat is under his arm and he is perched on a cast iron occasional table in front of an elaborate backdrop.

Description: A black and white photograph of a man in King's Shropshire Light Infantry uniform wearing a greatcoat with a swagger cane and forage cap. He is standing in the yard of a house with a pointed trellis and seat behind. See also G36-475-15 and G36-510-02

Description: Black and white photograph of an officer (as in G36-206A-06), in dress uniform with sash, overalls (cavalry trousers), boots and white gloves. He has a sword and stands in front of open French windows with a domestic interior inside. His white helmet is on view beside him.

Description: A black and white photograph of an officer of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, with a sword and a black armband.He is standing outside a door to the Drill Hall, Friars Street, Hereford (which has since been demolished). See also G36-039-03 and G36-316-04.

Description: A black and white photograph of nine soldiers and an officer wearing slouch hats outside the Drill Hall (which has since been demolished), Friars Street, Hereford. The officer is wearing a darker hat, four pocket tunic with pleated breast pockets, a stand and fall collar and a leather rifle belt. The others are in tunics with upright collars, two pockets below the waist, white belts, trousers, puttees and Ammo boots with hobnails. There is a bugler in the front row and on the right a soldier has a bayonet hanging from his belt. They all have swagger sticks and shoulder flashes “1HF”, indicating they are from the First Battalion of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers.

Description: A black and white photograph of a young soldier with young woman. The young woman does not appear in the family photograph (G36-302-07), suggesting she was perhaps a fiancée rather than a family member. She is wearing a suit with a sailor collar, small buttons down the bodice and elaborate braiding resembling frogging. Around her wrist she wears a chain bracelet with a heart-shaped locket.

Description: A black and white photograph of 13 mounted soldiers with an officer a length ahead of them. Their tunics have chain mail epaulettes suggesting the Shropshire Yeomanry. The soldier at the right end of the row is dressed and equipped as a Senior NCO. In the background is a marquee with flags flying and rolling hills and fields beyond.

Description: A black and white photograph of a large group of schoolboys from Hereford Cathedral School in military uniforms, khaki tunics and slouch hats. Several have rifles. In the centre are three men in the uniform of officers of the Herefordshire Regiment. There is a similar photograph taken on a different occasion at G36-362-06.

Description: A black and white photograph of a soldier with 1HF shoulder title, showing he is from the First Battalion of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers. He is wearing a field service cap, khaki drill uniform, puttees and boots and is holding a cane. See also G36-223-01 to G36-223-04.

Description: A black and white photograph of a soldier with 1HF shoulder title, showing he is from the First Battalion of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers. He is wearing a field service cap, khaki drill uniform, puttees and boots and is smoking. See also G36-223-01 to G36-223-04

Description: A black and white photograph of a young man in RAF uniform photographed in the studio against the backdrop of a panelled room.

Description: A black and white photograph of a Flight Lieutenant of the Royal Air Force. He is wearing a uniform jacket with pilot's insignia and a row of medal ribbons, also breeches and riding boots. The insignia above the rank braid is a small crown above an eagle (not albatross, the Air Ministry Orders of that time were quite specific about the bird's description).The uniform the RAF officer wears is a fist pattern introduced upon the RAF's formation and is Khaki in colour (not blue as usually associated with the RAF) (Source:Britairforce.com). He is leaning against the backcloth of a panelled room which appears in many later Bustin portraits.

Description: A black and white photograph of young man seated in front of a studio backdrop. He is wearing a three-piece suit in herringbone tweed and in his left buttonhole he has an RAF wings badge, indicating he has undergone flying training.

Description: A black and white photograph of Lieutenant-General Hopton (1837-1912).He is bareheaded, in dress uniform wearing the star, ribbon, and badge of a military Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and medals from the Crimean War, Indian Mutiny and the South African medal and clasp for service in the Kaffir and Zulu wars. He is perched on an exterior window sill with a domestic interior behind. The photograph was presumably taken when he was Colonel of the Fourth Battalion of the Militia [1897-1908].

Description: A black and white photograph of a group of soldiers at camp wearing pill box caps They are performing various tasks; from L to R there is a Soyer stove, a man is carrying a bucket, another is chopping wood with an axe, several are looking on and others are cutting up and cooking a leg of lamb. In the background is a bell tent with a camp bed in view. The conifers and landscape suggest that this is New Forest Farm, Hay-on-Wye as in G36-349-04.

Description: Black and white photograph of a young second lieutenant in mess dress uniform. He has one pip on his shoulder, a white waistcoat and light coloured or white lapels to the jacket, white shirt and black bow tie. He is wearing overalls (i.e.cavalry trousers) Wellington boots and spurs. The backdrop of a panelled room is seen in many Bustin portraits.

Description: A black and white photograph of a Second Lieutenant of the Herefordshire Regiment. He is wearing a service dress cap, jacket and breeches with puttees and has a leather rifle belt. He is holding a short cane and his leather gloves.