aldershot

I think this is not a Sopwith Scout, but a Sopwith Tabloid: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/collections/aircraft/sopwith-... The Scout, aka Pup: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/collections/aircraft/sopwith-...

Serial no. 326 Identified on this site as Tabloid: www.ukserials.com/serials-older-000.htm

Thanks artolog, it does appear to be a Tabloid not a Scout. We'll update our records.

This photograph is also available from the UK Imperial War Museum. See www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205192483 where the creator is given as "Royal Engineers official photographer." The handwriting on the IWM glass negative is the same as on several of the nearby photos in the Bain stream, suggesting that they originate from the UK.

H.A.C. = Honourable Artillery Company?

Absolutely Yes, Sir Henry. Perhaps we should tell Armoury House, London, UK, still the Regimental HQ

This photo was published in "The Great War Illustrated - 1914: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI" by William Langford books.google.com/books?id=M2DNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA95-IA81&a... with caption: "Honorable Artillery Company at Fargo Camp, Aldershot, pre-war 1914. New recruits are being introduced to the British field gun." See hac.org.uk/where-we-come-from/history/1914-1946 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honourable_Artillery_Company#First_... What is confusing about the location, is that the Fargo camp on Salisbury Plain, which is mentioned and shown in a map in www.rgcrompton.info/crompton/1805info8e.html is quite a distance from Aldershot. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pb3t4 is an audio program about the importance of Aldershot in 1914. "At the beginning of 1914; Aldershot was the largest army camp in the country. Home to two Infantry Divisions, a Cavalry Brigade, and large numbers of artillery, engineers, service corps and medical corps; 20% of the home British Army was based there."

Interesting question swanq. I would tend to believe the caption that came on the photo "H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914" would be more accurate than the caption Bain gave it, "Recruits, Aldershot". I did come across a booklet published by Lloyds of London which lists all of the Lloyds employees who died in WWI and includes short biographical sketches of them, www.lloyds.com/~/media/files/lloyds/about%20lloyds/histor.... On page 139 it mentions that Claude Leslie Harris was in the Honourable Artillery Company (H.A.C.) and that he attended "Fargo Camp from the 23th of May to the 6th of June 1914". Perhaps someone more knowledgeable on the British military at that time could confirm if it is Fargo Camp or Aldershot.