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Wessex Brigade Depot - A colour photograph of the Junior Soldiers Company (Summer term) 1974. This depot was responsible for training the recruits and junior soldiers for the Devon and Dorset Regiment, Gloucestershire Regiment, The Royal Hampshire Regiment and the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire). The instructors for the depot were drawn from the four main infantry regiment of the Wessex Brigade. The junior soldiers in this image are all named but we have only listed those from the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment. Back row (L to R) (4th ) Junior Corporal Porter, (5th) Junior Private Cully, (6th) Junior Private Macquillin, (8th) Junior Lance Corporal Turner 76, (9th) Junior Lance Corporal Archer, (12th), Junior Bandsman Hemming, (13th) Junior Lance Corporal Tait, (16th) Junior Private Macfarlane, (17th) Junior Private Gibbs 47, (19th) Junior Private Turner 40, (20th) Junior Private Ball, (22nd) Junior Private Gray 89. 2nd Row from rear (L to R) (7th) Junior Private Glover, (11th) Junior Drummer Hall. 3rd Row from rear (L to R) (9th) Junior Drummer Cook, (11th) Junior Drummer) Wallace, (12th) Junior Corporal Wheeler, (14th) Junior Bandsman Austin, (15th) Junior Lance Corporal Baker 48,, (17th) Junior Sergeant Peaple, (19th) Junior Corporal Crossman, (21st) Junior Bandsman Pester, (23rd) Junior Drummer Ancell, (24th) Junior Drummer Kinch, (28th) Junior Private Hanley, (32nd) Junior Private Walters, (33rd) Junior Private Heath. (Standing on ground L to R) (2nd) Junior Private Lyons, (9th) Junior Private Roller, (11th) Junior Lance Corporal Higgs, (16th) Junior Lance Corporal Stanley, (22nd) Junior Lance Corporal Lowery, (31st ) Junior Private Wilkinson. (seated L to R) (4th) Corporal Wilkie, (6th) Corporal Hiscock, (8th) sergeant Mallows, (10th) Band Sergeant Major Meynell, (13th) Lieutenant Michael Cornwell, (24th) Sergeant Norman Minty, (25th ) Sergeant Morgan, Front Row (L to R) (3rd ) Junior Private Wilson 50, (8th) Junior Private Faulkner, (12th) Junior Private Doig, (15th Junior Private Ryan, Not in photograph. Junior Private Hills, Junior Private Gibbs 66, Junior Private Lambert, Junior Bandsman Cross, Junior Drummer Tirtcombe.

Persons(s): Porter, Junior Corporal; Cully, Junior Private; Macquillin, Junior Private; Turner, Junior Lance Corporal; Archer, Junior Lance Corporal; Hemming, Junior Bandsman; Tait, Junior Lance Corporal; Macfarlane, Junior Private; Gibbs, Junior Private; Turner, Junior Private; Ball, Junior Private; Gray, Junior Private; Glover, Junior Private; Hall, Junior Drummer; Cook, Junior Drummer; Wallace, Junior Drummer; Wheeler, Junior Corporal; Austin, Junior Bandsman; Baker, Junior Lance Corporal; Peaple, Junior Sergeant; Crossman, Junior Corporal; Pester, Junior Bandsman; Ancell, Junior Drummer; Kinch, Junior Drummer; Hanley, Junior Private; Walters, Junior Private; Heath, Junior Private; Roller, Junior Private; Higgs, Junior Lance Corporal; Stanley, Junior Lance Corporal; Lowery, Junior Lance Corporal; Wilkinson, Junior Private; Wilkie, Corporal; Hiscock, Corporal; Mallows, P, Sergeant; Meynell, Band Sergeant Major; Cornwell, M, Lieutenant; Minty, N, Sergeant; Morgan, Sergeant;