A small archive of material relating to members of the Wybro...

Hammer

£420

A small archive of material relating to members of the Wybrow family, who served in the Boer War, WWI and WWII, including small Boer War period photograph album belonging to C E Wybrow who served in the Suffolk Regiment, containing over 90 small privately taken photographs of every day army life in South Africa, sea voyage, Malta, family life, distant view of an early airship, etc; a quantity of large format and other photographs, some on card mounts, including portrait of C.S.M. Wybrow, 1901, the Royal West Kent Regiment in WWI, of which there are several group photographs, a group photograph of the “Fifth Summer Educational Class, 1899” including L/Cpl Wybrow (2 copies), mounted infantryman of the 1st Suffolks, c 1900 (2 copies), group of mounted infantry at Aldershot, group including Kitchener with Boer leaders, several thin commercial photographs of Malta, including the Suffolks on Regimental Parade etc; also a quantity of paperwork, including C.E. Wybrow’s parchment certificate showing that he enlisted in the Suffolk Regiment in 1897, was discharged in 1909, and re-enlisted in September 1914, also showing that he was entitled to the QSA and KSA medals, other documents showing his transfer to the Royal West Kent Regiment, having also served in the Training Reserve and Royal Sussex Regiment; various documents relating to C C Wybrow who served in the R.A.S.C. in WWII; copy of “The Suffolk Gazette”, March 1900, “The Daily Telegraph” August 6th 1914 and “The Cologne Post” (B.A.O.R newspaper), April 1919; numerous other postcards, ephemera, etc; and a Victorian Suffolk Regiment cap badge and brass shoulder title. Generally good or worn condition. An interesting lot worthy of further research. £400-450