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| Picture No | 10694129 |
| Date | 1915 |
| Description | United Arts Rifles Volunteers, WW1 |
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Photographs of the United Arts Rifles, one of the volunteer regiments formed during the First World War and among whose ranks were many members of the artistic and dramatic professions. Among the men pictured is the actor, Mr Arthur Holmes Gore (marked with a cross in the botton right picture and seen talking to a Mr Weguelin in the middle image), who was killed fighting in the Dardanelles. Top photograph shows the company of the Corps in camp at Churt, near Farnham. The centre photograph was taken at Earl's Court in September 1914 when the Corps was first formed. The lower photograph shows the Corps in training at Taplow Court, the seat of Lord Desborough, the President. The bottom left inset shows officer of the 8th Hants who started in the United Arts Rifles, the centre figure being Colonel Willoughby Wallace, and others being the well-known actors, Mr Farren Soutar and Mr Weguelin. The bottom right inset shows the men marching out of Burlington House led by Mr Arthur Holmes Gore.
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| Source | Photographs by Horace W. Nicholls in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, 18 September 1915 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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