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52666: Group photo of the K.O.R.L. 2/5th Battn (1)

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posted on 2024-02-23, 13:46 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

Walter Lynn is in this photograph. Dated with the message "To Ma with love from Wally Xmas 1917".

Editors Comment:
Note the 'battle patches', dark rectangles to be seen on the upper arms of several of the men pictured. These were worn to ease identification in combat, and confuse the enemy.

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Identifier

3404.jpg| GWA_1656_1Group1917.jpg|

Subject

Lynn, Walter

Date

December 1917

Date Created

01/12/1917

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1917

Source

Postcard

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

Pages

1

Number of Pages

4

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Jennifer Bangs

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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