A Kodachrome colour photograph of a veteran soldier, taken by JCA...
A Kodachrome colour photograph of a veteran soldier, taken by JCA Redhead (1886-1954) during World War Two. The soldier wears the scarlet dress uniform of an officer in The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, the senior line regiment of the British Army. The medals on his chest show that he is a veteran of World War One. He also proudly wears the Distinguished Service Order medal. This photograph is a Kodachrome transparency. Introduced by Kodak in 1935, Kodachrome is regarded as the first '...
Captain Charles Geoffrey Barton
Capt Charles Geoffrey Barton MC. 6th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (1889|17.10.1918) Educated Cheltenham Coll & Pembroke Coll. Cambridge. Enlisted outbreak of war gazetted to Roy. Inniskilling Fus. 9|1914. Served in Gallipoli 1915. 6|1918 transferred to the Western Front. KIA aged 28. Buried Honnechy British Cemetery, Le Cateau.Grave Ref: I. B. 59. Son of the late Col. B. J. Barton, ADC., DL.& Mrs. Barton, of Portsalon, Co. Donegal; husband of Letty Barton, of The Garth, Ashford, Kent.
Private Harry Wellens (Service Nº 6289), 7th Btn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry, with his wife Alice and daughter Emma, April 1916. Harry died of his wounds at the Battle of the Somme on the 5th September 1916. He wears the South African Boer War medal ribbon and three Good Conduct Stripes (denoting 12 years service). (This photo was coloured for and permission to post was given by Alice's Grandson, Andy Travis)
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