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SBYRW : 46745

2nd Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A sepia photograph collected by Lieutenant Cuthbert Henry Tindall Lucas showing the funeral train at Richmond Road carrying Cecil Rhodes to the Matopo Hills, 1902. The image is somewhat blurred but stood centre are two officers Lieutenant George William Patrick Dawes, and Lieutenant Cuthbert Henry Tindall Lucas. [Cecil Rhodes brother Major Rhodes was serving in the battalion at this time]

Persons(s): Lucas, C H T, Lieutenant; Dawes, G W P, Lieutenant; Lucas, C H T, Lieutenant;

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SBYRW : 46754

2nd Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A sepia photograph collected by Lieutenant Cuthbert Henry Tindall Lucas showing officers from the battalion in Grahamstown , South Africa, October, 1902. (Standing L to R) Lieutenant James Duberly [Died of Jaundice in 1912], Lieutenant M. L.Slaughter, Lieutenant George William Patrick. Dawes, Lieutenant Benjamin C Sparrow. (Sat L to R) Captain Richard. G. Macdonnell, Colonel Frederick William Nicolas McCracken DSO [Commanded the 15th Scottish Division 1915 - 1917], Lieutenant Cuthbert Henry Tindall Lucas, Lieutenant Oliver Steel [ Killed in Action 25.10.1914]. [Note re Dawes - He was a career soldier and much decorated Boer War veteran, Lieutenant George Dawes served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment and was one of the first Britons to learn to fly, gaining his pilot's license (No. 17) in 1910. Promoted to Captain soon after, he was transferred to the newly formed Royal Flying Corps and commanded No. 11 Squadron (for eight months in 1915) before being posted to the Balkans as Officer Commanding, RFC in that theatre of war, a position he held from 1916 to 1918. Mentioned in dispatches on seven occasions, Dawes was honoured by the Greek and Serbian Governments and awarded the French Croix de Guerre.]

Persons(s): Lucas, C H T, Lieutenant; Duberly, J, Lieutenant; Slaughter, M L, Lieutenant; Dawes, G W P, Lieutenant; Sparrow, B C, Lieutenant; MacDonnell, R G, Captain; McCracken, F W N, Colonel; Lucas, C H T, Lieutenant; Steel, O, Lieutenant;

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SBYRW : 52532

2nd Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white group photograph of the officers in India, 1911. (Top Row) L to R 2nd Lieutenant L.M. Handley, 2nd Lieutenant A.D. Gordon, 2nd Lieutenant C.H. Dent. (2nd Row L to R) Lieutenant and Quartermaster H.S. Lickman, Lieutenant A.G.F. Isaac, Captain G.P. Hunt, Lieutenant M.C. Radford, Captain (Adjutant) A.J. Fraser. Lieutenant C.L. Waters, Lieutenant L.W. Bird, Captain W.B. Thornton, Lieutenant G.W.P. Dawes. (Sitting L to R) Captain O. Steele, Major J.G.R. Walsh, Major E. Feetham, Lieutenant Colonel R.N. Gamble, DSO, Major G.H. Arbuthnot, Captain A.E. Bingley, Captain F.H. Moore. (Bottom Row L to R) 2nd Lieutenant C. Nugent, Lieutenant A.H. Mankelow.

Persons(s): Handley, L M, Lieutenant; Gordon, A D, Lieutenant; Dent, C H, Lieutenant; Lickman, H S, Lieutenant; Isaac, A G F, Lieutenant; Hunt, G P, Captain; Radford, M C, Lieutenant; Fraser, A J, Captain; Waters, C L, Lieutenant; Bird, L W, Lieutenant; Thornton, W B, Captain; Dawes, G W P, Lieutenant; Steele, O, Captain; Walsh, J G R, Major; Feetham, E, Major; Gamble, R N, Lieutenant Colonel; Arbuthnot, G H, Major; Binglay, A E, Captain; Moore, F H, Captain; Nugent, C, Lieutenant; Mankelow, A H, Lieutenant;

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