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Photograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades

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SubjectTallett, Kenneth Viner
TitlePhotograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades
NotesOn the right, Kenneth Viner Tallett (1898-1987) was born Buckingham Street, Grandpont, Oxford was an apprentice printer (Bryans) until enlisting in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in January 1915. After training in Northampton and Essex he wet to France in the Arras region. He returned to England in 1918 and until demobilisation was an orderly at the Ashurst Military Hospital at Littlemore, Oxford, where he met and later married Mabel Taylor (my mother) ex R.A.O.C. Didcot/Milton Depot. Ken Tallett had three brothers - Horace, James, Kings Royal Rifles (killed at Arras 1917), Edward (Harry) civilian war work, and Ron (too young, but fought in WW2).
Item Date1915
Creation placeBroomfield
File typeImage
Item sourcePhotograph
Item mediumPhotographic paper
ContentPhotograph
CataloguerEverett Sharp
FilenameGWA_0693_oxscan0021.jpg
CopyrightThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repositoryThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor NameKate Lindsay (Oxford Central Library Submission Day 10th March 2008)
Contributed on the behalf ofJim Tallett
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/2668