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Studio Portrait Two Soldiers 1914-1918

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Studio Portrait Two Soldiers 1914-1918
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The seated soldier is W Byers. The photograph was taking in Edinburgh when the soldiers were home on leave.

W Byers was a miner at the Burghlee Pit, Loanhead, during the General Strike in 1926. After the strike W Byers emigrated to Canada.

Donor number: 0002-004

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Location:
Edinburgh
Categories:
Daily Life
Tags:
1910s 1914 1918 army boots cane coal commerce curtain details Edinburgh emigration first world war forces indoor industry jacket Loanhead men miner mining puttees shorts sitting solider standing stool strike studio swagger stick THELMA Trade uniform wartime World War One
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Living Memory Association
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