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Lt-Col C.C. Onslow C.M.G., Capt C.C. Foss V.C. D.S.O., Brig-Gen H E Watt C.B. C.M.G.
photograph (copy), photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1995-06-89-1-38

Description

Officers of 2nd Battalion The Bedfordshire Regiment at their front HQ, 1915. Copy photograph showing two dugouts made of sandbags and existing tiled buildings, foreground right and background left of a field. The dugouts are partly sunken but mostly above ground and one is possibly labelled, ‘The Sappers Rest’. Two officers, seated on an earth step and one standing over with hands on hips are in discussion, Rue de Bois, France, August 1915: Lt Col C.C. Onslow C.M.G., Capt C.C. Foss V.C. D.S.O., Brig Gen H E Watt CB CMG From an album of 84 photographs associated with the Western Front and India, 1914-1916 and compiled by Lieutenant Colonel A F Logan MC, East Surrey Regiment and 21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry.

Campaigns

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)