Greetings All!
It has been quite sometime since I've visited XMTS due to my studies at school (I can report that there is a light at the end of the tunnel!). I thought I'd pop in briefly to share three photos I found posted tonight in The Telegraph about a gentleman who saved 5,000 photos from the Great War. Among those pictured were three that showed Scottish troops. Two are identified as the London Scottish Regiment, the third is from Flanders (regiment unlisted). God bless this gentleman for saving this history. I hope that if he decides not to donate them to a museum, that he'll have the collection published so that we might all enjoy them and remember all those who gave everything in what they believed was to be the "war to end all wars."
The caption on the back of this photo reads: Soldiers from the Scottish Regiment, taken in Flanders just as the men were waking up.
Picture: MERCURY PRESS
Mr Smethurst said the treasure of his collection was a series of photographs of the London Scottish regiment, which fought a battle at Messines in 1914. No other photos of the regiment were previously known to exist.
A portrait of the London Scottish soldier who took the pictures of his regiment.
Picture: MERCURY PRESS
London Scottish Soldiers en route to Abbeville
Picture: MERCURY PRESS
The original source for these photos can be found at:
Dustman saves 5000 rare First World War photos from rubbish dumps.
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