Reference
X768/46
Title
Photograph album compiled by the Mead family of Albion Street, Dunstable, and mostly relating to John William and Lucy Mead and their two soldier sons, Frank and Ernest (killed 1917) who both served in the Bedfordshire Regiment in the First World War. Most of the photographs are of holidays by Frank and family at Bognor Regis, Sheringham, Clacton, Eastbourne, Box, Blackpool etc in the 1920s and 1930s. There are also some unidentified family groups. Other photographs are described in more detail, with page references given
(page 2): picnic at Pavenham (3 photographs) April 1928
(page 4): grave of Lucy Mead at Dunstable, the wife of John William, died 20 September 1926. November 1927.
Frank Mead in unifrom at Bedford. 1921
(page 5): Photographic postcard of Sgt. Frank Mead in uniform with dog, by E O Reynolds, St Mary's Bedford, photographer. [He was awarded the DCM in 1919 and rose to the rank of CSM, retiring from the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment c1928]. n.d. [c1920s]
Two photographs of unidentified people on a motorcycle at Ampthill [registration plate NM 8667, a triumph registered to Frank Mead of 17, Albion Street, Dunstable in May 1926 and normally kept at Citidel Barracks, Dover
(page 9): Children in back garden [17, Albion Street, Dunstable?].May 1928
Family car and picnic, Ampthill. Two photographs. April 1928
(page 17): Frank Mead in civvies. 1917
(page 18): Betty [Mead?] aged 3.5 years. n.d. [c1917]
(page 19): Photographic postcard of 6, Albion Street, Dunstable. n.d. [c1914]
(page 20): Frank(?) and his wife on their wedding day. n.d [c1914]
Ernest Mead in uniform [killed with the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, on 12 April 1917]
(pages 21-22]: Frank Mead's children: Eileen by Charles Smy, Dunstable, photographer, 1925; Gerald, 1935; also Philip Hyson as a boy, 1926
(page 23): Unnamed football team, probably Dunstable Melrose Football Club, 1911-12
(pages 25-26) commercially produced photographs of tourist attractions at Ostend. Visited 1937
(pages 27-3): commercially produced photographs of Vimy and Ypres, including battlefield war memorials and some views of the German trench system at Vimy as it appeared in 1917. Visited: 1937
Date free text
c1911-1937
Production date
From: 1911 To: 1937
Exent
No. of pieces: 1
Format
photograph album
Level of description
item