postcard, photograph, postcard
Accession Number

NAM.1999-07-23-18

Description

Royal Artillery at Lark Hill Camp, Salisbury, 1914, sent by ‘Fred’. Photographic postcard published by T L Fuller, Amesbury, Salisbury Plain, 1914 Group portrait of eight artillerymen in front of a tent at Lark Hill Camp, 1914. The man on the right has a badge indicating he is a qualified signaller. A number of men wear good conduct stripes on their lower left sleeve, indicating these are regular gunners, in the early summer prior to the outbreak of war in August. The addressee is unclear ‘Mrs L [...]emp, Vale Wood Cott/ Grayshott [?]/ Hants’. Halfpenny stamp and a postal mark of Lark Hill Camp, Salisbury Plain, 2 May 1914. Associated with World War One, Outbreak of War (1914-1918)

Campaigns

World War One, Outbreak of War (1914)