brooke

I know what "circa" means, but just for clarity, this cannot be earlier than 1916 because the steel helmet wasn't with the troops until April 1916 at the earliest.

15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_cm_sFH_13

Cropped from this John Warwick Brooke photo on the Imperial War Museum site, captioned "Royal Artillery officers of the 9th Division examining one of the German 5.9 inch howitzers captured in the west bank of Happy Valley. It was dated 13 February 1917." Production date 1917-04 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237348

More on the photographer: digital.nls.uk/first-world-war-official-photographs/paget...

Thanks to all of you for this great information! We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.

Imperial War Museum site describes this as follows:
"THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918

part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer) 1918-09-06

Q 7059

Battle of the Drocourt- Queant Line. Royal Engineers laying the railroad at Ecoust, 6 September 1918."


THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918© IWM (Q 7059)


THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918© IWM (Q 7060)
see also
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Drocourt-Qu%C3%A9ant_Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89coust-Saint-Mein

Photo probably dates from November 1910. The November 14th edition of the NY Times describes the National Horse Show Association in Madison Square Garden, and notes the presence of foreign officers including: Colonel P. A. Kenna, VC; Lieutenants Geoffrey Brooke and C. F. Walwyn of the Royal Horse Artillery; and Lieutenant Walter Brooke of the Yorkshire Light Artillery. See query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9903E...

Appreciate your help! We'll update the description with fuller names from the negative and reference to the horse show event.

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