Great War Portraits - Superb Photographs of WW1 Veterans - Signed and sent by the author Keith Collman

A book of personal photographs of WW1 Veterans who I met at their homes, reunions and on the battlefields of the old Western Front.

Great War Portraits remembers the survivors of WW1. Men and women who lived into old age, unlike many of their contemporaries. The veterans included took part in some of the most historic battles and campaigns of the Great War: Ypres, Gallipoli, Loos, the Somme, Arras, Messines, Salonika, Ypres, the Middle East, Italy etc. Their experiences are wide and varied, such as: serving with the BEF in 1914, releasing gas at Loos, receiving gallantry awards, being shot down in the Royal Flying Corps, being wounded, made a prisoner of war, nursing in Salonika, enlisting when 15 years old. Included are the final three British veterans, all died in 2009, William Stone, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch. Fittingly the final photograph in the book was taken at the funeral of Harry Patch as his coffin was carried into Wells Cathedral.

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Veterans Included:

Alexander ‘Alex’ Gibson M.M. - 6th Battalion The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) and 165th Coy. Machine Gun Corps

Stanley Clayton - Royal Engineers 

Tom R. Bromley - Army Service Corps, Motor Transport 

Walter ‘Guy’ Grump - Royal Berkshire Regiment Wiltshire Regiment Gloucestershire Regiment

William ‘Bill’ Partridge - 7th Battalion The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) 19th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 

Alf Davies - 7th Battalion The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) 

William ‘Bill’ Jarvis - 2/19th (County of London) Battalion (St. Pancras) 

John Buckley - The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) and Machine Gun Corps 

Bert Hunt - 20th and 2nd Battalion The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) 17th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment 

James ‘Jim’ Lovell M.M. - 8th Battalion - Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) 

Arthur Barraclough - 2/4th Battalion The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 

Jasper Cecil Fullarton Hankinson - 2/14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish) 

Robert Simpson ‘Bob’ Russell - 9th Battalion (Irish) The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) and The Machine Gun Corps 

Albert Elliot ‘Smiler’ Marshall - 1/1st Essex Yeomanry and Machine Gun Corps 

Walter Humphrys - 1/15th (County of London) Battalion (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles) 

Douglas Henry Roberts - 7th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 

Charles Alfred W. Watson - 11th Squadron Royal Flying Corps 

Arthur Halestrap M.B.E. - Royal Engineers - Signals 

Donald Hodge - The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 

Douglas Charles Gerald ‘Tommy’ Thomson - 2nd Battalion Honourable Artillery Company 

Alfred Charles ‘Alf’ Razzell - 8th Battalion The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 

George Conrad Leonard - The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) 

John Morris - The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) and The Army Service Corps 

William ‘Bill’ Crudgington - Royal Garrison Artillery 

Andrew Kewley - The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) 

William ‘Bill’ Mann - Royal Artillery 

Harry Taylor - 1/6th Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment 

Donald Pryce Hudson - Royal Engineers (Gas Corps) The Cheshire Regiment 

George Allan Short - Royal Garrison Artillery 9.2 inch Siege Battery 

Harry J. Hart M.B.E. - The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 

Sidney Lovell M.M. - 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 

John ‘Jack’ Gower - Merchant Navy, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) The Lancashire Fusiliers, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, The London Regiment 

Arthur Richard Pell Clifford - 11th Battalion (Lambeth) The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

John Edward ‘Jack’ Davis - 6th Battalion The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 

Bert Weston - Royal Field Artillery 

Robert ‘Robbie’ Burns - 7th Battalion The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders 

Terence Trevor Hamilton Verschoyle M.C. - 5th Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 

I. ‘Taff’ Davies B.E.M. - Royal Field Artillery ‘B’ Battery, 100 Brigade and ‘Y’ Battery 1st Trench Mortar Brigade 

Mrs A. E. Cleverley - Nursing Sister - Q.A.I.M.N.S., 38th General Hospital and 4/5th Canadian Hospital 

Mrs D. Smith (née Lilley) - V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment) 43rd General Hospital.

Mr W. H. G. Wiltsher - 2/20th (County of London) Battalion (Blackheath and Woolwich)

Sir Thomas Winlack Harley M.B.E., M.C., D.L. - 9th Battalion The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 

William ‘Bill’ Hay - 9th Battalion ‘The Dandy Ninth’ The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 

William Stone - Royal Navy 

Henry William Allingham - No 12 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force 

Henry John ‘Harry’ Patch - 7th Battalion The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 

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