Catalogue description KSLI, 2nd Battalion Bermuda Detachment, 1939

2KSLI photographs and press cuttings, departure from Southampton 1939, Bermuda 1939/40, outbreak of war, coloured postcards of local views. Includes newspaper cuttings announcing Britain's declaration of War on Germany on 4 Sep 1939. Page 13: photograph, dated 9 Oct 1939, showing, left to right, Major E. Dutton, Lt Gen Sir D. Bernard, Vice Admiral Sir Sidney Meymick, Bishop of Bermuda, Hon. R.C. Hollis Hallett, Lt Col. R. Swire, Hon, T.Gilbert, John Trimmingham. Page 14: Lt Gen Sir DJCK Bernard, Lt RF Arden-Close, Mayor E.Dutton, Lt Col R.Swire, Sgt Busby.

Page 15: Lt Gen Sir Djck Bernard, Major DG Cameron, Capt MJF Wilson, Hon RC Hollis Hallett, Lt Col R. Swire. Page 16: Bernard, Major NM Hughes-Hallett, Major E Harte, Capt Cottier, CCG Gilbert, H.Wilkinson, Dutton, Swire. Page 35: PTEs Link, Bailey, Howells, Cahill, Husbands, Boness, Kennett, Edwards, Malon, CPL Edwards, Bug Edwards, PTE Bailey, Lc Jones, BDSM Smith, LC Wallis, CPL Harcourt, Lt Brooke-Smith, Maj Hughes Hallett, Lt Arden-Close, , BDSM Warren, , Smith, PTEs Stone, McKeveney, Nugent, davies, Morris, Dawson, Lee.

Page 41: The 85th KSLI sailed for the West Indies on the "Ettrick" on her maiden voyage from Southampton, 13 Jan 1939. Page 42: Left to right, Gen Sir Reginald May, General DJCK Barnard, Gen JH Beith, Gen Sir Charles Grant, Capt Hughes. Page 46: standing: Bancroft, sale, Otter-Barry, Thornycroft, Armistead, Wykeham, Steel, Inness, Wheelock. seated: Longs Miles, Hallowes, Perkin, Kempster, Faithfull, Clarke. Page 47: Lt Col T Dix Perkin and Mrs Dix Perkin

132.85 (1921) & King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 2nd Bn