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1899, 2nd Bn Somerset Light Infantry. Corunna Barracks. Queen's Avenue and HQ Building to the right, #Aldershot

Well I finally managed to unlock the account. I hope everyone is well, a lovely image of Boer War era SLI below with a familiar name to anyone who followed the story of the Battalion from 1914-1916

100 years after first memorial service, South Western Railway worker pays respect to his great-grandfather railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/100-… via @RTMNews

War Memorial - Upton Cheyney

The Somersets and the Christmas Truce:
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Panel on one of the new GWR trains remembering staff who were casualties in WW1, including Albert Moger 8th Somerset Light Infantry

Our final Egypt item is the ever-popular Somerset Light Infantry: this is the 1st Battalion band, photographed while stationed at the Kasr El-Nil barracks in Cairo...doggo doesn't look too happy, probably because he was left of the naming chart. Rude.
#DogsInArchives
#DogsInBands

These photos are from the album of Private Phillips of the 1st battalion Somerset Light Infantry while he was posted in Egypt...our catalogue says 1920-1930 so he could have been in the area when the tomb was opened!
#CurseOfThePharoah

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery Commonwealth War Graves The Somersets #Albania

13.11.18 Battalion was 2nd in the Brigade Tug-of-War competition. Played the Rifle Brigade at football and won 1-0 (The War Diary continues until mid 1919)

All this week we'll be looking at researching your #WWI ancestors using the resources at SHC

We're starting with the records of the Somerset Light Infantry...of which we have 112 boxes worth! You can make a start searching the records on our catalogue

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Arthur Cook ended his diary on 11th November 1918 - during his recovery he was surprised to meet Capt Osborne who he had helped rescue at Preseau - Osborne's last words to him had been 'I'm finished' & Cook had been informed he had died of wounds

Weston-super-Mare’s #PagesoftheSea portrait shows John Hardyman of Somerset Light Infantry who died aged 23. #Armistice100

A slide show of Capt Bennett's photos via The Mail - shows Battalion HQ - Somerset House in Ploegsteert Wood:
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…

If you are following because you had a relative who served with the Battalion 1914-15 in Ploegsteert have a look at this article: Capt Bennett was one of the few senior officers from this time to survive the war via Metro
metro.co.uk/2018/11/09/fam…

Arthur Cook ' The electrifying news came that the Germans have asked for an armistice! I don't know whether to be pleased or otherwise. I have been waiting for a nice 'Blighty' wound for years. What I would not give to be with my Battalion now!'

11.11.18 Brigade group moved from Haspres to Curgies. Cold Day

Someone has given Bath old boy Harry Patch a poppy ahead of Remembrance Day. Pic by Matt Brooks beside the Devonshire tunnel on the Two Tunnels #ArmisticeDay100

This may be of interest to The Somersets BBC Somerset Museum of Somerset Somerset Archives