Catalogue description Album and Scrapbook of the KSLI

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Details of 6005/SHYKS/10/0061
Reference: 6005/SHYKS/10/0061
Title: Album and Scrapbook of the KSLI
Description:

Depot officers mess scrapbook 1933-1959, with earlier material, also includes photographs:

 

Pg4: Fort Henry (Canada) where KSLI went in 1777.

 

Pg6: 2nd Battalion Hockey Team, 1939 and Capt, R.H.Fowler.

 

Pg8: RSM G. Clarke DCM and PTE Nick Carter, Germany 1928.

 

Pg9: Officers of 1 st Bn, KSLI.

 

Pg16: Presentation of Colours to 2nd Bn by HRH Duke of York at Shrewsbury 1935.

 

Pg18: HRH Duke of York inspecting old comrades, 1935, 2nd Battalion Recruiting March in Church Stretton and Ludlow, 1935.

 

Pg28: Football Team of 2nd Bn, 1936/37 showing: Murphy, Lineton, Rodgers, Cookay, Massey, Smith, Moseley, Davies, Walters, Lineton; Rugby Team, Poona 1900.

 

Pg34: showing: Perrins, Dinning, Shaw, Lloyd, Grey, Lees, Robinson-Delooge, Murrey, Paves, Harrioson, Bird; Evacuation of cologne by British Troops, 30th Jan 1926, ROMS H. Langtry handing over the key of Minden Barrack.

 

Pg82: photo of 1st Bn KSLI, 1st DN Team, Hongkong, 1951, showing: Backrow, Gibbs, Bristow, Brindle, Beard, Simmonds, Spears, King, Ladley, Taylor, Thornhill, Bell, Moseley; Corporals, 2nd Bn, KSLI, Aldershot, 1929; Corporals and Lance Corporals, Depot, KSLI, 1932.

 

Pg29: Hockey Team of 3rd KSLI, 1919-1919, showing:Avery Timmis, Drury, Yeates, Cliffe, Eastwood, Coles,Rushton, Tanner, Bailey, Perkin, Johnson, Garside.

 

Pg 92. Sergeant Hone Welsh Guards, Sergeant Ashwoth R.A.E.C., Sergeant Farrugia R.A.P.C., Sergeant Noble, Sergeant Stewart, Sergeant Emery, Sergeant Jones, Sergeant Carroll, Sergeant John, Sergeant Martin A,C,C., Sergeant Gogin Royal Signals, Colour Sergeant Stirman, Quartermaster Sergeant Major Instucter Carvel A.P.T.C., O.Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Green, Regimental Sergeant Major Williams M.B.E., Colour Sergeant Major French, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Mc Williams, Sergeant Collett.

 

Pg 94. Lieutenant Avery, Corporal Timmis, Corporal Drury, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Yeates, Corporal Cliffe, 2nd Lieutenant Eastwood, Corporal Coles, Sergeant Instucter Rushton, Captain Tanner, Lieutenant Colonel Bailey D.S.O.

 

Pg99: 2nd Bn Hockey Team, 1933, showing: Evans, Kenward, Rees, James, Bunner, Barneby, Walsh Herbert, Huff, Roberts, Herbert, Cox, Tarr, Sir Charles Harington, R.E. Holmes, Perry.

 

Pg101: four photographs of Evacuation of Cologne, 1926.

 

Pg105: Members of Sergeants Mess, 1st KSLI, Rawalpindi, December 1933.

Date: 1900-1954
Held by: Shropshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 album
Administrative / biographical background:

132.53 (1921) & King's Shropshire Light Infantry

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