Photograph of the Rhodesian Platoon of the KRRC at Sheerness - 1914
Courtesy of Denise Taylor
English: A formative shot of men of the original
Rhodesian
Platoon of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (during the course of
World War I, there were several such platoons). Taken in November
1914 at the KRRC training depot at
Sheerness, Kent,
before the platoon went to the Western Front. In the centre of the
second row from the front sit the
16th Marquess of Winchester and the platoon's commanding
officer, Captain John Banks Brady. The majority of the men pictured
were killed in action, with most of the others severely wounded.
Date November 1914
Source National Archives of Zimbabwe. Scanned from
McLaughlin, Peter (1980).
Ragtime Soldiers: The Rhodesian experience in the First World War;
source of image in question given therein as National Archives of
Zimbabwe.
Author Not recorded. Probably British Army photographer. This image
also appears in Rhodesia and the War, 1914–1917: A Comprehensive
Illustrated Record of Rhodesia's Part in the Great War, published by
Art Printing Works in Salisbury in 1918, again without record of its
photographer. Judging from the character of this formative shot, the
fact that it was taken during wartime just before the unit was
deployed to the Western Front, the fact that it was taken at a
British Army training base, and the fact that its informal sponsor,
the Marquess of Winchester, is present in the centre of the
photograph, I consider it likely that the picture was taken in an
official capacity.
Source for the above information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhodesian_Platoon_of_the_KRRC_at_Sheerness,_1914.png#file
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Thank you
to Denise for this information My late Uncle John (Jack) Norris
served with one of these Platoon but sadly was KIA in Loos,
France on May 17, 1916 and aged 22. His headstone can be viewed at
the end of the article at http://rhodesianheritage.blogspot.com/2010/02/inyanga-with-special-reference-to.html
Thanks are also recorded to all the sites detailed above for the use of their material.
Comments are welcome please mail me on orafs11@gmail.com.
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