Scope and Content
It contains snapshot photographs of him relaxing and training with his fellow officers before the battalion went to the Western Front in September 1915.
Page 1: Shoreham parade ground with Mitchell [Edward Noel Mitchell, killed 1916], Airth [Rennie Alexander Airth, killed 1917] and Greer [ J S Greer] in deck chairs.
Littlehampton beach with Wyeth [H F H Wyeth], Vipond and Airth relaxing
The Dyke at Brighton with Simeons [Edward Emil Simeons, killed 1916] and Tyrer [Norman Tyrer] relaxing
Page 2: Two postcard views of Shoreham Parade ground, including one of bridge building team.
Page 3: Two officers, probably including Vipond, relaxing outside a bungalow and on the beach.
Page 4: Two officer groups including McMichael [Douglas William McMichael, killed 1916], Liddle [Major J S Liddell?], Auskovitch, Mitchell [Edward Noel Mitchell, killed 1916], Brewster [G D Brewster], Cartwright [Charles Cartwright, killed 1916], Airth [Rennie Alexander Airth, killed 1917], Wyeth [H F H Wyeth], Thomas [Honorarius Leigh Murron Thomas, killed 1916], Jessop [Augustus John Jessop, killed 1917 with Royal Flying Corps].
Page 5: Separate photographs of Sidney James Vipond and Miss D Edwards at Streatham. Two photographs of the 'Gaussen Bros' at Berkhampstead [David Newbold Gaussen, was killed in 1916] [whole page scanned]
Page 6: photographs taken at Shoreham; 'Maj Liddell' [J S Liddell], Capt Hawkins; un-named Bedfords team in the Southern Counties Cross Country running event.
Page 7: photographs taken at Shoreham; Sidney James Vipond and Brewster [G D Brewster] rowing on the River Adus; officers picnicking, Wyeth [H F H Wyeth], Mitchell [Edward Noel Mitchell, killed 1916] and Charles [W E Charles]. Officers posing in front a baker's van on the Shoreham to Redhill road; Bennett and Slursburg.
Page 8: Sidney James Vipond with Miss D Edwards at Streatham; Miss Edwards in the garden with her pets; Miss J Barton in her garden at Chelmsford; cut out photograph of Simeons [Edward Emil Simeons, killed 1916].
Page 9: Photographs taken at Shoreham; Vipond with Mrs Mifsud and Miss Robertson on the veranda of a house called Lyndhurst; four officers in a car with huts in background.
Page 10: blurred photograph of Wyeth [H F H Wyeth] outside hut; Sidney James Vipond outside hut; officers field cooking at Redhill.
Page 11: groups at Shoreham including Joyce RFC, Jessop [Augustus John Jessop, killed with Royal Flying Corps, 1917], Simeons [Edward Emil Simeons, killed 1916], and Lansberry [probably T W H Lansberry, 10th Bedfs Regt]
Page 12: Sergeants Norman, Jeffs and Skegwood at Shoreham. Troops at camp between Shoreham and Redhill. Unidentified officer.
Page 13: photographic postcards of officers at Shoreham; Gaussen [probably David Newbold Gaussen, killed 1916], Sidney James Vipond and Airth [Rennie Alexander Airth, killed 1917].
Officers relaxing outside Beach Hotel, Littlehampton; Wyeth [H F H Wyeth], Gaussen [probably David Newbold Gaussen, killed 1916]; and Sidney James Vipond.
Page 14: army Chaplian the Rev Dick at Shoreham. Mitchell and Gaussen at Shoreham
Page 15: photographs of officers taken during trench digging at Redhill, notably Gaussen [David Newbold Gaussen, killed 1916]
Page 16: photographs of officers, including a seated group near a cottage and an obituary for Walter Leverton Jessopp, Machine Gun Corps, of Bedford [killed 1917]. Includes a snapshot of the Gaussen brothers, Colonel Kennedy [E S C Kennedy] and the second in command Major [H G N] Logan Home.
Page 17: four snapshots of soldiers digging trenches at Redhill, and another of troops sitting on a wall. All un-named except Sgt Smith.
Page 18: snapshots of officers, mostly named, at 'Partridge Green. Route March', on the beach at Bognor, and at Charlonbury(?) Ring with their car and a Miss Russell. Includes a portrait photograph of Captain Daniell.
Page 19: Wyeth [H F H Wyeth] and Sidney James Vipond playing with their dog Boy at Handcross (East Sussex]; good quality three-quarter length photograph of Vipond in uniform; group of officers, Williams [Charles James Williams, killed 1915, Simeons [Edward Emil Simeons, killed 1916] with death notice, Vipond, [H F H] Wyeth and [Edward Noel] Mitchell [killed 1916] with motorcycle BM3307 [a 2HP Calthorpe Junior motorcycle registered to Charles James Williams of Bedford on 18 May 1914. There is a note in the motor car register - TLI 6 - that he was killed in action in December 1915].
Page 20: Includes portrait style photographs of Miss Russell and three-quarter length shot of Sidney James Vipond in uniform with sword.
Page 21: 17th Service Battalion Royal Fusiliers football team group, mostly un-named, but a few surnames given. Un-named picnic group.
Page 22: Officers with car with house in background 'Black Down Barracks. The Bus'; Captain [W T] Pares; Captains Danniell and Quilter [Roy Molyneux Quilter, killed 1916] with horse
Page 23: Officers Ross-Taylor [Ian Henry Munro Ross-Taylor, 7th Batt. Killed 1916], Mitchell [Edward Noel Mitchell, killed 1916], Gaussen [David Newbold Gaussen, killed 1916] standing with a dog under a road sign on the Shoreham to Blackdown road [scanned]. Faded snapshot of house 'Rylands' at Handcross. Photograph of officers' car and driver at Blackdown Barracks
Page 24: 15th Platoon at lunch at Partridge Green. Tented camp and officers quarters at Blackdown Barracaks. Pet dog 'Boy' with bandage 'after an engagement'.
Page 25: Captain Hatch [R L B Hatch] and Liddell [Major J S Liddell] outside the officers' barracks.
Page 26: signed portrait of David Gaussen [David Newbold Gaussen, killed 1916 [scanned]]; officers' tennis group, Sidney James Vipond, E W Beck [Edmund Wallis Beck, killed 1916], Major [J S] Liddell, [J S] Greer, [H F H] Wyeth
Page 27: Signed portrait photograph of officer: Eric Mills
Page 28: Photographs of Miss E Sutton and 2nd Lt Fowler, 5th Royal Fusiliers
Page 29: signed portrait photograph of E S Chance?, taken in France, 1915 [possibly Edward Seton Chance, 2nd Dragoons, killed 1918].
Page 30: Captain Quilter alias Spadger [Roy Molyneux Quilter, killed 1916] seated on bench in garden
Page 31: Sidney James Vipond in half uniform and tennis trousers
Page 32: troops on the firing range
Page 33: officers in their car; men on parade
Page 34: scenes in Belgium; St Jean church yard; ruins of Irish Farm, La Brique; scenes in the trenches
Page 35: officers' picnic, Vipond identified but rest unknown
Back of volume: Christmas dinner menu for officers of the 17th Service Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers, Whyteleafe Camp, 25 December 1914, containing signatures of some of those attending.