posted on 2024-02-21, 10:13authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
Corporal Charles W. Carr is seated second row from front, third from right. The photo is from a newspaper article is entitled "The 2/5th Gloucesters on Final Furlough: A party of the 2/5th Gloucesters on their last leave from the Plain before proceeding to the front had their photos taken with Col. J.C. Griffith this week".
All men are named below the photo. Charles Carr has marked a pencil cross next to many names, including his own.
Part of large collection of photos and memoribilia relating to Serjeant 3091 (later 240965) Charles Woodward Carr, 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment - kept by Mrs Gill Porter and Mr Tony Carr of their father.
Editor's Comment:
The 2/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment landed in France on the 23rd May 1916.