Ref No | 578-K/7/7/5/5 |
Title | 12th Battalion in training, leaving Sheffield, in France, Suez Canal and Egypt |
Description | Includes listening to Col. Hughes at Edmund Road Drill Hall; training at Bramhall Lane football ground; route march to Redmires Camp; Sports' Day at Redmires; digging trenches at Redmires; Col. Mainwaring leading the cheers at Surrey Street as the Battalion leaves Sheffield; three postcards showing trenches at Mailly-Maillet in Somme region of France, destruction at Ecurie and Hebuterne; bathing and the food ship Nestor in the Suez Canal; views of Lens, Serre and the scene of the Cadorna attack; and the memorial unveiled in Sheffield Cathedral 20 Dec 1919. |
Date | 1914-1919 |
Format | Photograph |
Notes | Images have had edges masked off in grey paint and have printing instructions written on reverse, possibly indicated that they have been published. |
Extent | 29 items |
Access Status | Open |
Term | First World War (1914-1918) |