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  • Yeomanry soldiers shoeing two horses

    Yeomanry soldiers shoeing two horses

    Title: Yeomanry soldiers shoeing two horses

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1860-1874]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a group of soldiers of the yeomanry at camp. They are mostly in shirt sleeves but wearing pill box caps. They are shoeing horses and a Sergeant Major is holding the heads of two horses. They are using a mobile forge but this is partly obscured. The landscape could be New Forest Farm, Hay-on-Wye. See also G36-413-17 and G36-325-08.

  • Tented encampment

    Tented encampment

    Title: Tented encampment

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1860-1874]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a tented encampment. This has been taken from a distance and men are seen lounging on the grass and tending the considerable number of horses. The men are mainly in shirtsleeves and wearing pillbox hats. The landscape could be New Forest Farm, Hay on Wye. See also G36-413-17 and G36-325-08.

  • Soldier outside of the Chapter House, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford

    Soldier outside of the Chapter House, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford

    Title: Soldier outside of the Chapter House, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1900-1902]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a soldier holding a cigar, wearing a tunic with plain buttons and a pocket watch wearing puttees and with two dogs. He is wearing a bandolier and is seated in front of the ruins of the Chapter House of Hereford Cathedral.

  • Lieutenant of the South Staffordshire Regiment

    Lieutenant of the South Staffordshire Regiment

    Title: Lieutenant of the South Staffordshire Regiment

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1902-1908]

    Description: Black and white photograph of seated lieutenant with a white cap and badge of the South Staffordshire Regiment. The white cap cover and tunic with Prussian collar was optional summer wear for all regiments (Source :Great War Forum). He also wears cavalry trousers, boots, spurs. He is holding leather gloves and a whip and is seated on an upright domestic chair with a studio backdrop. Subject appears in civilian clothes in G36-297-01.

  • Officer of the Gloucestershire Regiment

    Officer of the Gloucestershire Regiment

    Title: Officer of the Gloucestershire Regiment

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1902-1908]

    Description: Black and white photograph of young officer in dress uniform sat awkwardly on a bentwood chair. He has a helmet, gloves and sword and is wearing cavalry trousers and boots. His collar badge is the insignia of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Almost concealed behind the chair is the base of a neck clamp used to keep a subject still during a long photographic exposure. There is also some mirror writing at the foot of the plate.

  • The Drummer Field brothers

    The Drummer Field brothers

    Title: The Drummer Field brothers

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1914]

    Description: Black and white photograph of two bandsmen photographed out of doors. Drummer A.S Field (L) was aged 17 and Drummer A. Field(R) 15 of Drybridge Villa, St Martins, Hereford. They are wearing dress uniforms and service caps with the badge of the South Wales Borderers. Both carry sticks and one has a Good Conduct stripe on the left sleeve. This photograph appeared in Hereford Times of 31st October 1914 when the A.S. Field was wounded at the front.

  • Young soldier with family

    Young soldier with family

    Title: Young soldier with family

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1915-1918]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a family group with a young soldier smiling broadly standing. Seated in front of him on bentwood chairs are a gentleman in suit and waistcoat and a lady in a light coloured dress with deep coloured sash and a small girl standing between them.They are posed under a tree with their house behind. See G36-518-15.

  • Group of Royal Field Artillery officers and batmen

    Group of Royal Field Artillery officers and batmen

    Title: Group of Royal Field Artillery officers and batmen

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1882-1887]

    Description: A black and white photograph of two subaltern officers of Royal Field Artillery sharing a tent at camp and pictured with their grooms (holding bridle/saddle) and servants (batmen).The officers are in patrol jackets and the men undress frocks. (Source : Victorian Wars forum). The men have been engaged in cleaning horse tack.

  • Mounted officer at camp

    Mounted officer at camp

    Title: Mounted officer at camp

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1899-1902]

    Description: A black and white photograph of an officer mounted on a horse in front of a large tent with a notice "Commanding Officer" and various other tents in the background. See G36-389-03.

  • Officer in full dress, standing

    Officer in full dress, standing

    Title: Officer in full dress, standing

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1902-1908]

    Description: Black and white photograph of same officer as in G36-252-10. He is wearing full dress with epaulettes and sash.

  • Company Quartermaster Sergeant of the Shropshire Yeomanry

    Company Quartermaster Sergeant of the Shropshire Yeomanry

    Title: Company Quartermaster Sergeant of the Shropshire Yeomanry

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1898-1904]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a Senior NCO. He wears an undress frock with chain mail epaulettes and a medal ribbon. The three chevrons surmounted by a crown on his sleeve suggest a Company Quartermaster Sergeant and the loggerhead badge on the stripes is the Shropshire Yeomanry insignia. He is seated in a wicker char outside a bell tent with a camp of more tents behind and holding a bottle of whisky marked “Perfection“ and there are further bottles both opened and empty on the ground to his left, some in a wooden crate. To his left is an enamel basin on a tripod.

  • Second Lieutenant of the Herefordshire Regiment

    Second Lieutenant of the Herefordshire Regiment

    Title: Second Lieutenant of the Herefordshire Regiment

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1902-1908]

    Description: A half-length black and white studio photograph of a second lieutenant seated. His tunic has the collar dogs of the Herefordshire Regiment and his service dress cap bears the Arms of the City of Hereford. He is wearing a Sam Browne belt and leather gloves and has a sword at his side. It can be dated from the high collar of the tunic.

  • Great War soldiers, outside Harewood House

    Great War soldiers, outside Harewood House

    Title: Great War soldiers, outside Harewood House

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1914 -1918]

    Description: A black and white photograph taken from a distance of a large crowd of soldiers in Great War uniform outside Harewood House. They are backs to the camera as if they are about to enter the house. At the rear of the crowd nearest the camera some soldiers are sitting or lying on the grass and one man holds his bicycle.

  • Officers of Herefordshire Regiment, Drill Hall, Friars Street, Hereford

    Officers of Herefordshire Regiment, Drill Hall, Friars Street, Hereford

    Title: Officers of Herefordshire Regiment, Drill Hall, Friars Street, Hereford

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1908-1914]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a formally posed group of officers with the cap badge of City of Hereford Arms . A major sits in the centre and a small number of the group have medal ribbons. The location is outside the Drill Hall (which has since been demolished), Friars Street, Hereford.

  • Colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry with a woman

    Colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry with a woman

    Title: Colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry with a woman

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1914 -1918]

    Description: A black and white photograph of an officer with a lady with a small dog. His uniform indicates that he is a Colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry and he is wearing service dress cap, tunic, breeches and gaiters. See also G36-493-20.

  • Major of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps

    Major of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps

    Title: Major of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1880-1908]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a Major of the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps.He is sitting outside an open bell tent with a large oriental rug in the interior. There is another tent behind.

  • Army camp across a river

    Army camp across a river

    Title: Army camp across a river

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1880-1895]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a large tented army camp across a river. There are a few people in the foreground, the soldiers appear to be in scarlet and the civilians' clothes would seem to be 1880s or 1890s.

  • Soldier of the Third Dragoon Guards

    Soldier of the Third Dragoon Guards

    Title: Soldier of the Third Dragoon Guards

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1897-1908]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a soldier in the uniform of the Third Dragoon Guards. This photograph is very similar to G36-202-01.

  • Army camp

    Army camp

    Title: Army camp

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1871-1880]

    Description: A black and white photograph of an army camp. Soldiers with kepis are lined up in rank and a regimental band is in the foreground.

  • Soldier of the Hereford Regiment

    Soldier of the Hereford Regiment

    Title: Soldier of the Hereford Regiment

    Type: Image

    Date Published: [1915 -1918]

    Description: A black and white photograph of a young soldier of the Herefordshire Regiment. He is wearing an 'Imperial Service' badge which shows he is a member of a volunteer Territorial Regiment, but has volunteered to serve overseas. He is wearing a Simplified tunic adopted as an economy measure and a leather belt with a snake clasp.

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