Harry Myers, my father (b. 1899, Summer Lane, d. 1974 Streetly), tried for R.N.A.S but rejected for eyesight reasons, finally accepted for the Army at the Recruiting Office in Suffolk Street on or around his 18th birthday in November 1917, joined initially the London Scottish, later posted to 2/1st Lovatt Scouts and ended up in 3rd Cameron Highlanders.
He was in France or Flanders in the summer of 1918 and was wounded in July or August , repatriated and treated in a military hospital in Colchester. September saw him up and about and photographed at Stoneleigh together with his father and the Knowle and Dorridge Volunteers (the Great War Home Guard). As a serving soldier, he is the only one without a rifle; and about the only one without a fearsome moustache (back row, extreme right).
Happy times after the Armistice at the regimental barracks in Edinburgh in early 1919 - the sentry go image probably dates from then, (the one in full dress uniform from then or earlier, before he went to France) and also the one (of many I have) showing young lads happy to have survived and looking forward to whatever life has to offer.
Chris