Photographs and biographies from Home, Garrison and Training battalions

Below are a selection of photographs taken in units other than the 'main' combat battalions with their own sections on this site.

This great photo was kindly sent to me from Frank Glass, who's daughter in law is the great niece of Captain Andrew Best McBride, MC. Andrew is the last man on the right standing on the back row. The photo is dated April 1918, so was probably taken JUST before Andrew's death and Military Cross being won on the 24th.

Most of these Officers are Captain from various Scottish Regiments but there is a smattering of Staffordshire and Kent men and a few Majors to boot. Anyone with information on any of these men would be greatly welcomed as I would love to know who they are! Especially the cheeky looking Major of the Royal Scots Fusiliers sitting fourth from the left on the bottom row!

Training Depot Officers, July 1915

John Wainwright was very kind in sharing this photo of the Officers attached to the Regimental Training Depot in July 1915. Where their full names appear, I have identified them from my own records, otherwise they are as the names appear on the caption with the photograph:

Back row left to right; Quarter Master and Honorary Lieutenant J.C. HOOPER, Second Lieutenant R.D.J. HODGSON, Second Lieutenant Frederick Arthur SANSOM, Second Lieutenant Evelyn Ernest Arnold COLLISSON, Lieutenant Frank Alan SLOAN MC, Second Lieutenant K.L. MALLETT, Second Lieutenant Arthur LANG, Second Lieutenant Andrew Cecil THOM-POSTLETHWAITE, Second Lieutenant Robert Edwin OAKLEY MC.

Front row left to right; Captain Rupert Harold GRETTON, Captain Hon. M. St. JOHN (attached from Bedfordshire Yeomanry), Major G.B. YOUNG, Major F.A.D. STEVENS (Second in Command), Major A. NELSON (Adjutant), Major A.O. LYON, Second Lieutenant Truman TANQUERAY (attached from RW Surrey Special Reserve).

There is a new book available on the Ampthill Park Training Depot, written by Ian Church, who has been sifting through the Woburn archives for some years. Contact me for his details.

3rd Battalion Officers, 1915

I brought this from the infamous Ebay but when it arrived, it was a mere photocopy (probably from 'the Wasp') and the detail was less than perfect so this is the best I can do with it. A larger copy is available on request. Therein lies a lesson ...

However, this is the 3rd battalion Officers sometime in 1915. From the presence of several of the names along with the short-ish shadows, I estimate it to be late spring / early summer, although any evidence confirming or contradicting this would be helpful!

As with other group photos on this site, I have identified the officers based on the information provided with the photograph. Any full names have come from my own files, otherwise they are copied verbatim from the caption. Please let me know if there are any errors.

Left to right and back to front, they are:

Back Row: Second Lieutenant Charles HAYWOOD, Lieutenant William Hugh Byam SHERVINGTON

Row: Second Lieutenant Charles VERNER, R.B. BEEVOR, W.E. HART, A. TOPLEY, A.M. WATT, Arthur Cyril CROSKELL

Next row (standing): Second Lieutenant H.C. PHILLIPS, Lieutenant F.T. WHITTIMORE [probably Frederick WHITTEMORE], Second Lieutenants Albert William EAST, John Thomas COE, F.C.W. NEWMAN, R.J. HAY, Martin Andrew STEWARD, R.O. GOULDEN.

Seated: Captain W.E.C. WOOD, Captain Sidney TABOR MC, Major W.C. ROPER-CALDBECK, Captain Sir F.W.F. FRANKLAND Bt., Major H.S. WINDHAM, Lieutenant-Colonel Lord [Arthur Oliver Villiers RUSSELL] Ampthill GCSI GCIE, Major Hugh Stainton POYNTZ DSO (Adjutant), Major H. THORPE (Quartermaster), Captain W.P. DRUCE (Assistant Adjutant), Captain E.S.C. GRUNE, Lieutenant I. BOYDE RAMC

Seated (on ground): 2/Lts R.M. BARWELL, S. St. G. HARE, H.A. BIRD, O.T. SCHOLTE, Lawrence Alexander Lewis FINK, Reginald Cumberland GREEN, B.E.L. HEALE, M. NEWFIELD