Subject: Officer's Group, 1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment.

Sitters:

(Standing, left to right)

(1) Lieutenant, later Captain Leonard Barratt Shepherd-Folker (1897-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1915; Captain, 1925; Adjutant, Bermuda Rifle Corps, 1931.

(2) Lieutenant, later Captain Charles Pennack (1893-?): 2nd Lieutenant, Lincolnshire Regiment, 1915; Lieutenant, 1917; Captain, 1926; attached Sudan Defence Force, 1925-30.

(3) Lieutenant F.W Williams (-).

(4) Lieutenant, later Captain Frank William Allbones (1892-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1915; Captain, 1926; specially employed as Intelligence Officer, Northern Ireland District, 1923-24.

(5) Lieutenant, later Captain David Alexander Jones (1896-?): Enlisted Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914; Captain, 1926.

(6) Lieutenant C Crick (-).

(7) Lieutenant, later Major Tom Anderson Peddie (1892-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914; Adjutant, 1919-1922; Captain, 1925; Major, The Green Howards, 1930.

(8) Lieutenant P.E Stepping (-).

(9) Lieutenant Frank Heath (1893-?): Served six years in the ranks, Lincolnshire Regiment; 2nd Lieutenant, 1918; Lieutenant, 1919.

(10) Lieutenant Geoffrey Ingoldby (1901-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1921; Lieutenant, 1923.

(11) Lieutenant, later Captain Lionel Chasemore Gates (1895-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1916; Captain, 1927; Intelligence Officer, Northern Ireland District, 1923-24.

(12) Lieutenant, later Captain Ernest William Milford (1898-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1915; Adjutant, 1925-28; Captain, 1927; Adjutant, T.A. 1928-32.

(13) Lieutenant George Alfred Victor Keays (1900-?); Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1919; Lieutenant, 1921.

(Seated, left to right)

(1) Lieutenant F.L Jones (-).

(2) Captain and Quartermaster Ernest James (1882-?): Served fourteen years in the ranks; Quartermaster, 5th Lancers, 1914; Captain, 1917; Lincolnshire Regiment, 1922.

(3) Captain John Joseph Billiat (1893-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1912; Captain, 1916.

(4) Captain Edward Hastings Impey (1891-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1911; Captain, 1915.

(5) Major Guy Moreton Ellison (1883-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1902; Captain, 1913; Major, 1917.

(6) Major, later Colonel Arthur Baynes Johnson (1879-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1898; Captain, 1905; Major, 1915; 2nd-in-Command, 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment; Colonel, 1930; retired, 1930.

(7) Lieutenant-Colonel, later Brigadier-General Frederick Gordon Spring (1878-1963): Commanded 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, 1923-27; A.Q.M.G Southern Command, 1927-31; Commander Poona Independent Brigade Area, India, 1931-35; retired 1935; Inspector of Recruiting, 1935-39.

(8) Captain and Adjutant Ernest James (1883-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1903; Captain (from Special Reserves), 1916; Adjutant, 1922.

(9) Brevet Major, later Brigadier Percy Howard Hansen (1890-1951): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1911; won the Victoria Cross at Sulvla Bay, Gallipoli [August, 1915]; Brevet Major, 1919; Staff Officer, 1924-1937; Commanded 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, 1937-39; Colonel, 1939; returned to Staff duties 1939; member of S.H.A.E.F. Mission to Norway, 1943-5; retired with honourary rank of Brigadier, 1949.

(10) Captain, later Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Graham Gauntlet (1887-?): Entered York and Lancashire Regiment, 1908; Lieutenant, 1911; Captain, Lincolnshire Regiment, 1915; Major, 1924; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1934.

(11) Captain R.W Carr-Orme (-).

(12) Captain Arthur Lindsay Haire (1884-?): Captain, Lincolnshire Regiment (from Special Reserves), 1921.

(Lying on ground, left to right)

(1) Lieutenant Denis Alleyn St. John Wolfe (1900-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1919; Lieutenant, 1921.

(2) 2nd Lieutenant, later Lieutenant Charles Ralph Boxer (1904-?): Entered Lincolnshire Regiment, 1924; Lieutenant, 1926.

Date: 6 May 1924.

Occasion: Regiment stationed in Northern Ireland 1921-24, in support of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Location: Holywood Military Camp, Northern Ireland.

Descr: FL.

Costume: Service Dress uniform, Officers, Lincolnshire Regiment.

Furniture & Props: -

Evidence of photographer at work: -

No of poses: 4.

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Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989

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References:

Biog: (Johnson) Kellys' Handbook, 1936; The Army List, 1924; (Spring) Who's Who; The Army List, 1924; The Times, 26 September 1923, p 8c; (Hansen) Who's Who; The Army List, 1924; The Times, 13 February 1951, p 6d; (others) Army Lists (particularly those for 1924, 1929 & 1935).

Occasion: Major L.C. Gates, The History of the Tenth Foot, Aldershot, 1953.

Costume: Dress Regulations for the Army, London, 1911 (facsimile edition), Thurston Press, Norfolk, 1986 (see amendments published 1912 & 1913).

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