Soldiers of the Queen

An unidentified officer of the 25th Regiment of Foot - The King's Own Scottish Borderers
Trooper, 2nd Life Guards, c. 1898 [...] just prior to the Anglo-Boer War. He is identified on the reverse of this image and the same inscription states that he died in South Africa. Unfortunately his name is very hard to decipher.
2nd Lieutenant Hylbert John Birkbeck of the 1st Battalion, West India Regiment
Wearing the uniform of the Montreal Highland Cadets a young G. W. Berridge proudly poses for the photographer. The mount bears three separate inscriptions on the reverse that are unfortunately to faint to scan. One in pencil dates the photograph to March 1908. The second in ink is a poem in Berridge's own hand:

Remember me when this you see
When this you look upon
Wrote by my hand
Long may it stand
When I am dead and gone.

G.W. Berridge

In a third hand is added: "killed March 23, 1912".

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