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There is a public tree on the Ancestry website which has a photograph of the VC victory reception at Blandford Forum in 1918. He was born on 3rd Nov 1898. He married Ada Mary Louise Vauvert by licence at St Dunstan's, Edge Hill, Liverpool on 27th August 1921. At that time Jack gave his occupation as Soldier and was residing at the Recruiting Office, Old Haymarket. The VC database shows that Jack died whilst visiting relatives at Blandford Forum on 16th September 1970. His ashes are buried at St Andrew's Churchyard, St Helier, Jersey.

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why do they wear so much clothes

@grassplanter - they may have put their jacket and hats back on to eat as being in a state of undress may have offended others. Either that or, being an English Summer, it wasn't that warm that day.

All three horses are wearing ear covers, these protect the sensitive skin inside the ears from the bites of flies.

Street View

High Street West, Dorchester, England – Then & Now (100+ years later)
 
There appear to be only modest changes to this High Street in over a century of time. (The 1890 photograph shows 3 buildings in the foreground that aren't included in the camera position of the 2010 photograph.)

The building tinted pink, on the left, in the photo above is The Old Tea House, built in 1635. It continues today as a tea house and restaurant. The square tower in the distance is St. Peter's Church, built in 1454.
 
 
   "High West Street, Dorchester" (2010)           "High Street West, Dorchester" (c.1890)
              by John Steedman                                         by Library of Congress
     
 
 
   "Old Tea Shop and Rajput, High West Street, Dorchester" (2007)   by dorsetbays