PHOTO ARTICLE: Summer, 1914, Pt.II
Earlier this week I posted this:
Ages ago, I bought this amazing, huge format book full of images of the opening weeks of the First World War. It was full of lesser spotted images and I thought it would be AMAZING to mine it for images when it came to Ring of Fire. Then I put it at the back of a wardrobe and forgot about it.
Oops.
So this week, to give myself a bit of a break from writing over the festive season, I thought I’d bring you some of the best images in a two-part feature so that at least they would see the light of day somehow. I’ve made the first part free, by way of a Christmas present…
London had a mass of territorial regiments, and these were called up on the outbreak of war. Here one of them is assembling in the Dean’s Yard at Westminster Abbey.
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