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D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.
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D C Harries Collection : Military Portraits

  • D C Harries Military Portraits
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  • [c1890-c1947]

Over nine hundred portraits, mostly studio, predominantly of First World War era British Soldiers. Most are individual portraits, some are in small groups with family or friends, also large group photographs. Many depicting a Territorial Force summer camp may well be from a 1913 camp held between Bridge and Lovelock farms, Ffairfach in the summer of 1913. The vast majority are anonymous but some can be given approximate dates by the presence of overseas service chevrons, good conduct stripes etc. Many of those dated 1914, especially the Pembroke Yeomanry, may well date from the years preceding the outbreak of WW1. Other portraits are of members of associated services and include veterans of earlier conflicts and servicemen & women from World War Two. The latter category including American troops from the 28th Division who were camped in South Wales from October 1943 until July 1944 as well as Free French and Belgian soldiers. Both US Corps of Engineers and infantry corps are represented. The engineers are believed to be men of the 103rd Engineer Battalion who served with the 28th Division. Their headquarters from October 1943 to April 1944 was the Hotel Belgrave, Tenby. There are also a considerable number of US Quartermaster Corps GI's including African-American soldiers.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

[Private, Royal Welsh Fusiliers]

[Private, Royal Welsh Fusiliers]

A studio portrait of a private in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The soldier is seated, his arms crossed in front of him displaying an overseas service chevron on his right sleeve and a wound stripe on his lower left sleeve.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

[Two Sergeants]

[Two Sergeants]

Studio portraits of two moustachioed sergeants in greatcoats and peaked caps. On the right is a sergeant in the Royal Engineers, the other the Army Veterinary Corps.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

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