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[Private, Pembroke Yeomanry]

Full-length studio portrait of a very young private in the Pembroke Yeomanry wearing leather gaiters and economy tunic. Introduced in 1915 the economy tunic lacked the pleat in the centre of the breast pockets.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

[Private, Welsh Regiment]

Half-length studio portrait of a private in the Welsh Regiment. As this soldier's uniform has no embellishments and the economy service tunic without pleat in the breast pockets the implication is that this portrait dates from c.1916.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

[Private, Welsh Regiment]

Full-length studio portrait of a private in the Welsh Regiment. As this soldier's uniform has no embellishments and the standard service tunic with pleat in the breast pockets the implication is that this portrait dates from the years immediately preceding, or shortly after, the outbreak of WW1.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

[Private, Welsh Regiment]

Three quarter-length studio portrait of a private in the Welsh Regiment. As this soldier's uniform has no embellishments and the economic service tunic without pleat in the breast pockets the implication is that this portrait dates from the middle or later years of the conflict.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

Pte George, Taliaris

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.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

[Retired Lieutenant colonel in full dress uniform]

Full-length portrait taken outside a large house of an elderly Lieutenant colonel in full dress uniform and holding a cocked hat. He is wearing six medals of which three can be positively identified - Indian Mutiny medal (1858), Kabul-Kandahar Star (1881) and Egypt Star (1885). One of the others may be the Afghan Medal with clasp. The two unidentified medals also have clasps.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

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