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Offline DaveMurphy

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16th Battalion A Company Platoon 1
« on: June 13, 2010, 08:03:17 PM »
16th Battalion A Company Platoon 1

Offline Mark Hone

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Re: 16th Battalion A Company Platoon 1
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2014, 12:55:08 PM »
I shall have a look at a higher resolution version on the CD-ROM and try to pick out Lance Corporal T. Cartman, later Captain Thomas Cartman MC of 17th Manchesters (see the thread about him and his recently-discovered scrapbook). Am I right in assuming that these chaps were probably the very first Pals to enlist?
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Re: 16th Battalion A Company Platoon 1
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2014, 09:13:53 AM »
As I've found before it's not easy to identify individuals from a greoup photoi, even when you know what they look like. My bset guess on Tom Cartman is that he may be the Lance-Corporal standing third from the right on the second row at the end of a line of seated NCOs and officers with another Lance Nike standing next to him, but who knows?

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Re: 16th Battalion A Company Platoon 1
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2018, 08:10:43 AM »
L/Cpl 6327 Herbert Williamson is sat in the front row with the drum and bugle (with stripe) Also member of Bugle Band.  Came from Heywood.
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