Alt_Ref_NoA367
Ref No578-K/5/10/2/15
TitleHallamshire Battalion training exercise, camps, Band and drill practice
DescriptionSix colour photographs of service at York and Lancaster memorial in Weston Park, Sheffield; twenty-one colour photographs of Band and drill practice; thirty-three photographs of training exercise on Yorkshire Dales National Park, including transport to the site, camouflaging of vehicles, and socialising afterwards; Instructor Sgt. Goble demonstrating shoulder-fired rocket at Norfolk, June 1965; twelve colour photographs of A Company and informal groups of soldiers relaxing en route to camp [includes signposts for Leek, Staffordshire]; thirty-eight photographs showing military transport arriving at a camp and at Nissen hut barracks, landscapes of hills and lakes, setting up camp, weapons practice, cricket match, playing dominoes in the bar [photographs include signs for Sedbergh in Cumbria, Swaffham in Norfolk, and a Waverley Cafe]; four colour photographs of activities at camp including soldiers on horseback dressed in medieval uniform for historical re-enactment; eight part-strips (fourteen frames) of colour negatives.
Date[c.1955]-1965
FormatPhotograph
Extent123 items
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