A Bomb Gun Section. An easy time in the trenches [St Floris, France]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
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Men of the 1st Seaforth Highlanders in the trenches, with one man looking over the rim through a periscope. See also Photo 24/(37), Photo 24/(39-42) for other prints in the same sequence.
Bomb Gun Section. Shell bursting in front of trench [St Floris, France]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
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The same image as Photo 24/(39) (qv), but printed in landscape instead of vertical format. See also Photo 24/(37-38), Photo 24/(40-41) for other photographs in the same sequence.
First line transport of a Gurkha battalion in Flanders [Le Sart, France]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
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Column of 1/4th Gurkhas on the move, watched by French children at the roadside. Duplicate at Photo 24/(95). Similar to Photo 24/(92-93), Photo 24/(95).
[Officers' dugouts. The home of a C.O. of Indian Infantry, Fauquissart, France]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
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Duplicate of Photo 24/(298), showing Lieut Col Davidson Houston of the 58th Rifles seated with Indian soldiers outside his dugout. This copy of the print is incorrectly captioned.
Group of six officers & men 1/4th Gurkhas who have received honours or been mentioned in dispatches in this war, with a French Red Cross surgeon who was till recently a prisoner in German [Le Sart, France]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Wounded listening to the bag pipe [sic. for gramophone], and sunning themselves [Brighton, England]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
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Group of wounded Indian soldiers gathered round a bagpiper. Caption continues: 'Some with crutches, others with arms in slings, several even on beds, all are enjoying the beautiful sunny days at Brighton, and the sweet strains of the gramophone. So boisterous has been the applause to several of t...