#FlashbackFriday to a time when printing a loved-one's photograph onto a handkerchief was a way to show you cared! This wonderful artifact shows Private J Dymond, 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment, in 1900.
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#BlackandWhiteWednesday - this fabulous photograph of a group of officers casually posing for the camera gave us boyband vibes! Captains Heyworth, Llewelyn, Gould, Gordon and Reade, of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, were photographed on Cardiff Arms Field in 1871.#armylife #victoriansoldier
#ThrowbackThursday to 1885 and huge cap badges! Here’s 2nd Lieutenant Charles Morton Hastings, 3rd Battalion, Welsh Regiment, modelling the oversized Glengarry cap badge consisting of plumes, coronet and the motto of the Prince of Wales.
#army #armylife #uniform #museum #archive #victoriansoldier
For #TravelTuesday we are on board a ship with the 2nd Battalion, 24th of Foot, heading to South Africa. Here’s A Company embarking for the Boer War, 1899-1902.
#BoerWar #armylife #travel #victoriansoldier #history #museum #archive #photograph #blackandwhite
#WorldCardMakingDay – here's a Christmas card from 1901 made from a piece of khaki uniform and sent home by 3567 Pte W. Walters of the 2nd Battalion, the South Wales Borderers. Pte Walters was serving in South Africa during the Boer War.
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#PhotoFriday – an interesting pic as the South Wales Borderers never had a regimental goat – this one was adopted as a pet during the Boer War. And the soldier is wearing a Brodrick cap – so unpopular it was only issued for 3 years from 1902 to 1905!
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#BlackandWhiteWednesday here’s an image of the Regimental Band of the 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, in Gibraltar in 1896.
#photograph #victorian #victoriansoldier #band #music #armymusic #musicians #history #archive #collection
#BlackandWhiteWednesday - we’ve been playing ‘spot the dog’ with many of our archive photographs - this one is a little more challenging than most! This pic shows a group of officers of the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1862.
#dogs #dogsofinsta #army #armylife #victoriansoldier #victorian #achive
Grab your basket and blanket, or in this case fur stole and bowler, it's #InternationalPicnicDay! Here’s how we did alfresco lunch back in Victorian times! This is Captain Reynolds’, (1st battalion, Welsh Regiment), annual picnic gathering in Malta in 1892!
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#ThrowbackThursday to a voyage to South Africa in 1901. Here are Captain Phillips, 2nd Lt Lloyd and Major Hunter of the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, aboard the SS Assaye, heading to the Boer War.
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#ThrowbackThursday to fabulous moustaches! Here is 4803 Colour Sergeant Harry Lewis Phillips of the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers. He was 28-years-old when this photograph was taken at Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1902, right at the end of the Boer War.
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