Description | Thirty-seven photographs of groups in training and departing for France, 1915, (including 4th, 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th Battalions at Redmires Camp and Bramhall Lane, Sheffield; Penkridge Bank Camp, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire; Noblethorpe Hall, Silkstone, Barnsley; Hurdcott Camp, Wilton, Salisbury). Thirty photographs of war memorials and cenotaphs (Weston Park, Sheffield; Barnsley; Pontefract; Clifton Park, Rotherham; Laughton-en-le-Morthen; Treeton; Thiepval; Sheffield Park, Serre). Twenty-four photographs of Serre and the Somme region including former battle fields and British Military Cemeteries where members of 12th and 13th Battalions are buried (Railway Hollow, Serre Road Number 1, Serre Road Number 2, Serre Road No.3, Queens, Luke Copse, Euston Road). Ten photographs of 12th and 13th Battalions at Suez Canal, Egypt, in 1916. Forty photographs of scenes of weapons, warfare and destruction at Serre, Thiepval, Beaumont Hamel, Mouquet, Fricourt, Carnoy Valley (near Mountauban), Ovillers, La Boiselle, Albert, Becourt, Poperinghe [some are stills from a film made about the Battle of the Somme]. |