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Knowle and Dorridge Volunteers - 1918

ChrisM

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This is an image of a fearsome group of volunteer soldiers defending Knowle and Dorridge against the Hun in 1918. (The Volunteers were a forerunner of the Home Guard 22 years later in WW2).

By some miracle can any member identify a face?

Chris
 

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There is a thriving History Society in Knowle Chris they may be able to add some information. They attend the local library each Saturday morning. Not sure if they person I knew is still an active member.
 
Thanks very much, both, well worth a try.

One of the strange things about that image is that the one bloke whom you would expect to be armed is the one who isn't - the young Cameron Highlander. He had been released a few days earlier from hospital in Colchester, having been wounded in France in July, and precisely why he came to be photographed within that group, I have no idea. He had suffered a leg wound from shrapnel. Lucky it hadn't been anywhere more vital as otherwise I shouldn't be around to make this post.

Chris
 
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