Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales
D C Harries Collection : Military Portraits
D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.
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A three quarter-length portrait of a Private holding a swagger stick. There is some form of identity on his shoulder but not sufficiently clear to identify his regiment. There is also a patch of darker cloth at the top of his sleeve, possibly part of a divisional patch.
Studio photograph of the headstone for Capt Alan Ralph Peel, 24th Regt, son of Herbert & Mary Peel of Taliaris killed in action at Kosseoa Nov 17th 1914 aged 28.
Studio portrait of two privates and a corporal in the Pembroke Yeomanry. The private in the centre of the photo holds a bugle and wears a bugler's trade badge.
A half-length portrait of an officer in dress uniform displaying the collar badges of the South Wales Borderers. Identified as Captain Alan Ralph Peel of Taliaris, killed in action at Kosseoa, Cameroon on Nov 17th 1914. See West Wales War Memorials project for confirmation.
Studio portrait of a Lance Corporal in the South Wales Borderers and a private in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers standing either side of a seated civilian who appears to be wearing a discharge badge.
Group of26 Royal Marines officers along with a Royal Navy Chaplain, a Royal Navy Medical Superintendent and a dog. Photographed in a field with sheep and outbuildings in the background.
Studio portrait of a young woman in the Auxiliary Territorial Service attached to the Royal Corps of Signals as denoted by the cap badge worn on her left breast.
Half-length portrait of a corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps wearing the Africa Star medal ribbon bearing the figure '8' indicating that he fought with the Eighth Army in North Africa. Negative is inscribed "Miller, Taliaris '5"
Head and shoulders studio portrait of a young woman in RAF uniform, the two-bladed propeller indicating her rank as Leading Aircraftwoman. Negative inscribed 'WAAF Hughes G G[rest illegible].'