Major Edwin Richardson, a specialist military dog trainer, and Cherry-Garrard (who may be behind the policeman in the photograph) just before leaving London for Belgium in August 1914. © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Men of the Royal Naval Division arriving (many on double-decker London buses) in Antwerp in October 1914. Victor Campbell arrived with the RND’s Drake Battalion; Rupert Brooke and several of his friends were with other battalions. Image from contemporary French magazine © private
During October 1914 inhabitants of Antwerp fled as the German army approached; the pontoon bridge in the background was the only means of escape to the coast. © Mary Evans Picture Library
HMS Hogue, on which Henry Rennick served, was torpedoed on 22 September 1914 while assisting the Aboukir; HMS Cressy then tried to rescue men from both ships. The dotted lines to the Hogue indicate the trajectory of the torpedoes. Picture from The Great War magazine, image © private
HMS Irresistible, on which William Lashly served, sank after hitting a mine whilst bombarding the forts around the Dardanelles on 28 March 1915. Photograph © and courtesy of Stephen Chambers
Cecil Meares in the uniform of the Northumberland Hussars, with whom he served at Ypres and neighbouring areas of the Western Front. Photograph (J-00279) courtesy of the Royal BC Museum, BC Archives, Vancouver, Canada
Hooge chateau, near Ypres, before the war; its formal gardens may have inspired Major Lawrence Johnston (who was billeted there with Meares) to plant an alley of stilted hornbeams at Hidcote, his Cotswolds garden. 1910s postcard, image © private
Christmas truce near La Boutillerie (Rouge-Banc sector), December 1914, with officers of the Northumberland Hussars; the photograph was probably taken by Hussars officer, Lieutenant Robson. © Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection/Imperial War Museum
Rupert Brooke took this photograph of Edward Nelson, Bernard Freyberg and other comrades from Hood Battalion (Royal Naval Division) during training exercises on the way to Gallipoli in March 1915; he wrote on the reverse: ‘Lemnos. ‘A’ Company with Freyberg (left) + Nelson (right) Windmills in distance.’ Photograph (RCB/Ph/267k) © and courtesy of King’s College Library, Cambridge
Royal Naval Division men charging from a trench; the photograph, described as ‘Charge in Gallipoli’ was probably taken during training in Lemnos, Greece. © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
When visiting America in 1913 Rupert Brooke had a studio session with Sherril Schell, whose photographs were later engraved and widely circulated by Emery Walker. Image from Marsh (see bibliography) © private
Harry Pennell married Katie Hodson in Oddington, Gloucestershire, on 15 April 1915. Contemporary postcard (photographer unknown), image © and courtesy of David Wilson
Harry Pennell’s medals: China 1900; British War and Victory Medals; Polar Medal (silver), Antarctic 1910–13, George V; Royal Geographical Society medal (for Terra Nova expedition); image © and courtesy of Spink, www.spink.com.
The first news of Shackleton’s Endurance expedition (which left Britain in August 1914) reached Britain in early 1916. This Daily Mirror front page of 10 July 1916 shows the ice-bound ship and expedition members including Terra Nova veteran Tom Crean (lower right). Image © John Frost Newspapers/Mary Evans Picture Library
HMS Queen Mary, on which Harry Pennell served, was hit and almost immediately exploded and sank during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. Photograph (taken from another ship) © Mary Evans/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
Victor Campbell in uniform, date unknown; image courtesy of David Parsons and Newfoundland Museum.
Vincent Campbell’s medals, left to right: DSO and bar; OBE; 1914 Star and clasp; War Medal; Victory Medal; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and War Medal (both 1939–45); Polar Medal (silver), Antarctic 1910–13, George V; George V Jubilee medal (1937); Croix de Guerre 1914–18. Image © and courtesy of David Parsons
Gran with members of Royal Flying Corps No. 44 (Home Defence) Squadron at Hainault Farm, 1917; Gran (wearing light-coloured flying suit) lies on the grass, awaiting orders to jump into his Sopwith Camel. Photographer unknown: image © and courtesy of Trevor Henshaw
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, where about 10,000 First World War sailors (including Harry Pennell) are commemorated; other sailors are commemorated on identical memorials at Plymouth and Chatham (where Henry Rennick is commemorated). Photograph © Anne Strathie
War memorial, Oddington, Gloucestershire, where Harry Pennell’s name is listed just below that of his brother-in-law Hubert Hodson. Photograph © Anne Strathie
Hooge chateau after the war; contemporary postcard, image © private
The ruins of Ypres seen from the Hooge–Menin road after the war. Image, from Michelin’s guidebook to Ypres (published in English in 1920 for British visitors to the battlefields), © private
The Menin Gate memorial, Ypres, commemorates almost 55,000 soldiers with no known grave (including Hubert Hodson, Harry Pennell’s brother-in-law). Photograph © Anne Strathie
Tyne Cot memorial and cemetery, near Ypres, where 50,000 men (including Raymond Priestley’s brother Donald) are commemorated; the candles on gravestones were lit during ‘Light Front’, a centenary event on 17 October 2014. Photograph © Anne Strathie
Edward Nelson’s fellow RND officer, Frederick ‘Sep’ Kelly (grave in foreground), is buried at Martinsart, near Beaucourt-sur-Ancre. Photograph © Anne Strathie
J.M. Barrie, Scott’s friend and godfather to Scott’s son Peter, was installed as rector of St Andrews University on 3 May 1922. Here he sits between Field Marshall Earl Haig (Chancellor of St Andrews) and actress Ellen Terry; Bernard Freyberg, VC, stands behind Barrie and Haig. Freyberg, Terry, Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy (bareheaded, beside pillar on left) and others had been nominated by Barrie to receive honorary degrees. During his rectorial address Barrie read from Scott’s last letter to him. Photographer unknown: image (Group 1922-2) © and courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library (Special Collections Division).
An early remembrance poppy; the first British ‘Poppy Day’ was on 11 November 1921; by the following year poppies were being made by Field Marshall Earl Haig’s British Legion. Image © and courtesy of The Wilson, Cheltenham (which holds a large collection of Edward Wilson’s work)
Part of ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ (original concept and poppies by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, installation designed by Tom Piper) which was on display at the Tower of London during 2014. The 888,246 ceramic poppies (the number of British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in the war) filled the moat and structures including (as shown here) ‘Over the Top’. Photograph (taken soon after 11 a.m. on 11 November 2014) © Anne Strathie
The Tower Hill Memorial commemorates 12,000 sailors of Britain’s merchant and fishing fleets (such as Alf Cheetham) who died during the First World War; the memorial, designed by Lutyens, was unveiled in 1928. Photograph © Anne Strathie.
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