52410: Photograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades

On the right, Kenneth Viner Tallett (1898-1987) was born Buckingham Street, Grandpont, Oxford was an apprentice printer (Bryans) until enlisting in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in January 1915. After training in Northampton and Essex he wet to France in the Arras region. He returned to England in 1918 and until demobilisation was an orderly at the Ashurst Military Hospital at Littlemore, Oxford, where he met and later married Mabel Taylor (my mother) ex R.A.O.C. Didcot/Milton Depot. Ken Tallett had three brothers - Horace, James, Kings Royal Rifles (killed at Arras 1917), Edward (Harry) civilian war work, and Ron (too young, but fought in WW2).