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Christmas card
Unknown, 1915, Card, Photograph
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Christmas card
Christmas card
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33800
Title
Christmas card
Description
Alexander Henderson seated and his friend George Gray (standing). Alexander was brother of Joan Gentles Henderson, Bill's Grandmother.
Both died of wounds in World War One. Alex Henderson buried at Le Treport in Northern France.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1915
Size
10 x 7.5 cm
Type
Card;
Photograph
Copyright
Reproduced by kind permission of William J. Hall
The photographs in this exhibition were kindly loaned to us by Bill Hall for our digital collections. It contains images dating from the early 1900s to the 1980s, taken across Scotland.
Brought up in Edinburgh he has collected many family photographs and items covering his mother's early years and his own boyhood.
Bill's great-uncle Alexander Henderson, born in 1890, was employed by St Cuthbert's Co-operative as an assistant grocer and played in their football team. It's possible he joined a "pals battalion", a group of men from the same workplace or football team who enlisted together. He joined the Seaforth Highlanders and after training landed in Boulogne in May 1915. He died of wounds at the Battle of Loos on 12th October 1915 aged 25.
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