Picture No | 10640483 |
Date | 1914 |
Description | City of London recruits, Tower of London, WW1 |
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Young men answering the call to enlist at the start of the First World War. All of them employees of City firms, they were joining the City of London Battalion, consisting of 1300 men. Seen here at the Tower of London, waiting to swear the oath of allegiance.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in ‘The Bystander’, 2 September 1914, p475 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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