Half-length studio portrait of a sailor in the Royal Navy. His trade badge - a twin-bladed air screw with letter A below - suggests his involvement with aircraft. His surname and 'Llandyfan' have been written on the negative, unfortunately his name is indistinct but appears to start with the letter 'T.'
Head and shoulders portrait of a soldier wearing a beret. He is also wearing a tactical recognition patch on his right shoulder in the form of an inverted 'Y'
Studio portrait of a corporal in US Corps of Engineers with numerous medal ribbons and other insignia including overseas service bars. Negative inscribed 'Anthony USA.'
Head and shoulders portrait of a soldier in the Royal Signals wearing a beret. On his left shoulder he has a Pegasus Formation sign and airborne cloth patches. Inscription on the negative possibly reads "Davies, Clunderwen."
Full-length studio portrait of a United States Serviceman, identifiable as a Technician Fifth Grade by his insignia. The negative is inscribed 'MORRIS.'
Studio portrait of a soldier with a Welch Regiment cap badge on his beret and commando shoulder patch and title. He also displays a wound stripe. These were awarded in 1944 and withdrawn in 1946. Negative inscribed 'Walters' Llanarthney'
Half-length studio portrait of a young man in military uniform lacking insignia. Negative appears to be inscribed "Jones, Llwynderis [Llwyndyrys?] Derwydd."
Head and shoulders portrait of a smiling soldier, RAS (probably Royal Army Service Corps) visible on his shoulder title. He is wearing the medal ribbon of the Africa Star on which is superimposed the numeral '8' indicating he served with the Eighth Army in North Africa.
Studio portrait of two corporals from the Royal Army Service Corps, both wearing an Eighth Army Africa Star medal ribbon, photographed on either side of a younger man in military uniform.
Head and shoulders portrait of a young woman wearing a military uniform with shoulder title and badge, neither displayed clearly. Negative inscribed as per title.
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.
Head and shoulders portrait of a sergeant, with what appears to be a division patch above his sergeants stripes. The motif on the division patch appears to be a crown.