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Photograph Album: Various photographs of 1st, 2nd and 5th (TA) Battalions, Regimental HQ and Depot of 1st Bedfordshire Battalion (Home Guard); mostly groups

1900-1960

From: 1900 To: 1960

p1. Meeting of the 1st and 2nd Battalions 16th Foot at Malta April 14th 1926, named group of officers. p2. Colour prints of uniforms 16th foot. p3. 2nd Bn Marching to church, Colchester 1906-7, Machine gun section after winning the all Africa MG competition at Johannesburg, June 1913, Boxing aboard SS Novar en route to India, Oct 1919. p4. Results of sports competitions. p5. A Coy 2nd bn. on march from Quebec Bks Burdon to Manueuvres on Salisbury Plain, Sep 1930. p6-8. 2 photographs of piquets built around Nablus, Palestine by 2nd bn. 1936. p9. Trimulgharry, Deccan India, 2nd bn. Gun rock from meadows barracks, meadows barracks from gun rock, Clp Reed, CSM White and Sgt Charlton, wireless station meadows barracks, meadows Barracks, Trimulgharry entrenchment. 1920. p.10 Lieut Col J S Davenport MC taking the salute at the March Past, after a drum-head service held in barracks, 3 Oct 1937. p11. Cartoon of Major C B Cumberlege from the Wasp. p12. Colour party leaving Baghdad, March 26 1926. p13. Cartoon of captain C E G Shearman from the Wasp. p14. Mr Charles Hartley, January 1934. p15-16 Members of the serjeants Mess 2nd bn. on board SS Cameronia on route to Egypt on special duty. Named group, 12 March 1936. p17. Members of the 2nd bn on board SS Cameronia en route to Egypt on special duty, 12 March 1937 [sic] p18. Fincham High Jumping in the annual sports, Officers scratch race (named) June 1937. p19. Finish of the 100X sports 1937. C Coy tug of war. p20. Old soldiers race, 1937. p21. Inspection of a detachment of 2nd bn by Mr Hore-Belisha 12 Novmeber 1937. p22. Funeral cortege at Gravesend on the death of Sergeant Hemmens. p23. Old soldiers with clay pipes and singing in front of a kitchen range. p24. Sgts mess 1938. p25. Named group of 2nd bn. Bordon, 1932. p26. Colour party 2nd bn go aboard HMT Nevassa Karachi, 31 March 1926. p27. Scenes taken from c coy road blocks at Jaffa, June-July 1936. p28. C Coy 2nd Bn Palestine 1936. p29-30 Snaps of scenes in the middle east 1936. p31. Lt Col W H R Dann DSO lays a wreath on the Zeebrugge War memorial on St Georges Day, Dover 1927; Bordon station departure of RSM H Munson, Feb 1933. p32. Scenes on Tubas road Nablus, Oct 1936. p33. 2nd bn. 2nd place small arms cup Bisley, (named group) 1935. p34. Funeral of L/cpl Walker C Coy at Ramleh Military Cemetery 18 Oct 1936. p35. typed extract re trooping the colour at Baghdad with programme. p36. Menu for the last dinner of the 1st bn as a separate unit. 23 May 1958. p37. 1st bn officers, India, Feb 1933 (named). p38. 1st bn. Corparala, Multan 1901. p39. 1st bn. cricket match, Aldershot, 1912 named officers and sergts seated in front of tent. p40. 1st bn. four scenes of soldiers on manoeuvres 1910. p41. 1st bn sailing for Malta, 1925 (named group). p42. 1st bn officers, WOs & ORs who were serving in 1914 and sailed from Belfast, Kowloon, China, 1927 (named group) p43. Various 1st bn. 1934-35. p44. The colonel of the regiment inspects A Coy 1st bn retuning home from Salonika in the Empire Windrush after 25 years foreign service. Feb 1950. p45. Total strength 5th bn first post war camp, Felixtowe, 1948 and named group of officers, 1950. p46. 5th Bn Lt Col J R Harper present medal to RSM F Boutwood, June 1952. p47. The colours handed back from wartime safe custody by his worship the mayor of Bedford. Ver-Sur-Mer-Normandy Drm major Colbert tosses the mace in front of a group of children, June 1950. p48. Group 5th bn Bourley Camp, 1956; RSM J H Mann awarded medal by Col Denning, June 1956. p49. Band 5th bn, 1957. p50. 5th bn WOs & sergeants, 1958. p51-52 blank p53. Officers regimental depot (named), 1923. p54. RHQ & Depot old guard uniforms leave the main gate, 8 June 1958 [PU288/96]. p55. Aerial view of Kempston barracks from the south west, 1936. p56. Aerial view of Kempston barracks from the north west, 1936. p57. not used p58. Regimental war memorial, barrack square looking north, Summer 1952. p59. Passing out parade at depot; Landen squd, 1934; Depot football team (named) 1936-7; Mears, Jackson and Hall, Kempston Barracks, November 1947. p60. RHQ & Depot the last guard found for the assizes 6 May 1958 [PU288/96]. p61. blank p62. 1st Bedfordshire bn home guard pass the saluting base on their first regimental parade, June 1952. p63. blank p64. Colonel inspects 1st Bedfordshire Home Guard, Home Guard march past and home guard guard of honour outside St Paul's church, June 1954. p65. blank p66. The womens section 1st Bn Bedfordshire Home Guard. Colonel inspects home guard? 1955. p67. blank p68. 1st bn Bedfs Bn home guard annual dinner, 1957. p69. blank p70. 1st Bedfordshire home guard winners the sector aggregate cup. p71. blank p72. Bedford Civil Defence Forces in grounds of Kempston Manor, 1955. p73. blank p74. The last of the 1st Bedfordshire bn home guard representative party received by his worship the mayor of Bedford, 27 July 1957.

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1st Battalion Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, 5th Battalion (T.A.) Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, Home Guard, Iraq, Malta, shooting, Palestine, India, Baghdad, sport, funerals, photographs, Jaffa, cricket, ships, Kempston Barracks, football, Assizes, civil defence