nteresting Collection of WW1 Era Photographs and Ephemera – Tait MGC

This is a quite fascinating large collection of photographs both loose and in a large album, certificates and diaries all belonging to one man, Greville Brend Tait who served as a Captain with the Middlesex regiment and later as temporary major with the MGC, he first saw service in France from March 1915 and during 1916 was in Egypt. Greville was born in 1892 and by 1910 had been given certificate ‘A’ to certify his qualifications for the infantry at the officers training corps Highgate, by 1912 he had certificate ‘B’ from the officers training corps from Cambridge University and in 1913 received his commission certificate to serve as an officer in the territorial force as a second lieutenant. His medal index card is busy to say the least, it shows his service in France and the move to the MGC, there are two small diaries which he kept in army note books, his writing is sometimes easy to read and at other times very difficult but he does detail the boredom of day to day serving in Egypt with occasional action but far more interest in a good meal and clean water. Greville was a very good photographer and he took some very good photo’s of his surroundings, his fellow officers, the machine guns, natives and their life styles and later housed them in the large album, there are some loose slightly larger examples and everything is housed in his original brown leather monogrammed suitcase which has preserved the contents extremely well so everything is in very good condition the suitcase showing signs of age and use.
A fascinating glimpse into one man’s service in a difficult war zone.
Shipping weight is in excess of 10KG so shipping will be via courier priced at £12.95

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