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- What Are The Chances of Finding Photographs of Your British Army Ancestors?
- Dead Officer Photographs
- Officer Photographs Generally
- Photographs of deceased Other Ranks
- Regimental Photographs
- Photographs and Portraits in Newspapers
- Photographs on Ebay, Delcampe and Online Auctioneers
One thing is certain, our military ancestors weren’t shy of the camera. Since photography was invented in 1839 soldiers have posed in front of a camera in their millions. At the time of writing, a casual trawl on the UK version of eBay reveals over 39,000 postcards for sale from the First World War, the majority of these posed in studios or taken w...
Many officers will have attended public schools or universities prior to enlistment; they may also have served in a branch of the OTC and so photos might have been taken of them during these stages of their life. Their death in action might have occasioned an obituary and photograph in a local newspaper, or later in a published roll of honour such ...
For the same reasons as stated above, officers are more likely to have had their photographs taken and to have appeared in named rolls than other categories of soldier. For examples of this, see the photographic archives maintained by Radley College (see photo on this post) and Harrow School, amongst others. Many of those pupils photographed as pre...
Certain newspapers published during the First World War routinely published photos of soldiers who had lost their lives for King and Country. Portraits of deceased soldiers also feature in many published rolls such as De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, the British Jewry Book of Honourand numerous trade and city or county rolls of Honour.
I am thinking here of books like The Manchester City Battalions Book of Honourand the hard-to-find roll of honour of the Salford battalions of the Lancashire Fusiliers by Sir Montague Barlow. These books published named photos of original battalion members although it is not usually possible to identify who’s who. I own medals to a Manchester Pal w...
Some newspapers also published photos of men who had been wounded or taken prisoner, or who had sent photos back of themselves in France. If you know where your ancestor lived during the time he was in the army, it is certainly worth checking local newspapers.
It costs nothing to register search terms on online auctioneers’ websites and doing so will alert you to potential successes. Patience is all that is required. And remember, with so much new material being published online every day, your chances of success, although remote for the most part, are only going to improve over time. Console yourself wi...
Apr 8, 2019 · William Hoge and his wife, Barbara Hume Hoge, are buried in the old cemetery on the church grounds and a huge plaque stands outside the cemetery honoring their memory. (A couple of historical footnotes about the area – George Washington was a young surveyor who surveyed the lands around Opequon Creek around 1750 and some of the Hoge family members worked with Washington on that survey.
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