Railway Transport H.Q Staff. L of C Abbeville, Septr 1916
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1996-09-66-2-99
Description
Photograph of Railway Transport HQ Staff, Abbeville, Sep 1916. With newspaper cutting relating to the death of Brig Gen Magniac, from The Times, 5 Jun 1953. From left to right, Maj Stallard, RE, Maj Goddard, Capt Linesey, Brig Gen Freeland, RE, Lt Col Magniac, Capt Frinling, Maj Colvin, Lt Straw. Newspaper cutting from the Time 5 June 1953 records the death f Brig-Gen Charles Magniac CMG CBE (died 4 June 1953). Born 14 December 1873. Joined the Indian Railway Service in 1896. CMG awarded 1916 and CBE in 1919. From photograph album, one of two, compiled by and relating to the career of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Ambrose d’Oyly Goddard, Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1891-1957.