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 The first Tollesbury volunteers. Postcard.

This photograph, taken outside the King's Head at Tollesbury, shows the first men from that village to volunteer for the army and navy. Seated on the car is Sir Laming Worthington Evans, M.P. for Colchester and with him, in a straw boater, is the Rev. William Carter. 




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The first Tollesbury volunteers. Postcard.
This photograph, taken outside the King's Head at Tollesbury, shows the first men from that village to volunteer for the army and navy. Seated on the car is Sir Laming Worthington Evans, M.P. for Colchester and with him, in a straw boater, is the Rev. William Carter.

Photograph CG2_048 is a similar but different photograph.

Photograph used in The Salty Shore page 116. Used in Tollesbury Past by Keith Lovell, plate 55.


Date: 7 September 1914      

Photo: Cedric Gurton Tollesbury
Image ID CG10_613
Category 2 War-->World War 1


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This image is part of the Mersea Museum Collection.