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Our Boys at the Front

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Our Boys at the Front
Sheffield
1900-1919

Pictured Top (l.to r.) Private Arthur Astbury (2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment) - called up as a reservist on proclamation of war and Corporal A. Bramwell (4th Battalion,York and Lancaster Regiment) Centre Driver Walter Froggatt (Royal Field Artillery) - a one time member of the St. Paul's Botherhood, Sheffield. Bottom (l.to r.) Private A. M. Best (Royal Garrison Artillery) - served in the South African Campaign and volunteered for present war and J. W. Carr (1st, Royal Naval Brigade) - in siege of Antwerp and now interned in Holland. Inscription at the top of the image reads Strike for your altars and your fires; Strike for the green graves of your sires; God, and your native land! Fitz-Greene Halleck Image from Sheffield Independent's War Album 'Our Boys at the Front', part 11 (Local Studies 940.5341 SST)

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