Victoria Barracks, Belfast 1914

Officers 1st Battalion, Dorset Regiment

Most of the officers 1st Battalion, Dorset Regiment. Taken at Victoria Barracks, Belfast about 7th August 1914.

I have just found a photo album belonging to my great-grandfather, Colonel SRB Partridge, with a clipping from the Tatler November 11th 1914. It uses the same photo but has all the officers numbered, named and with their current status: wounded, killed, etc.

My grandfather, Lieutenant Partridge, is listed as killed, with a handwritten note saying: “error”. This must have been quite difficult for the family at the time as they had lost their other two remaining sons, Captain Charles Burnett Partridge, and Lieutenant Geoffrey Dorman Partridge on the 1st and 3rd November respectively.

Practising marching past at Holywood, Belfast May 1914.

1st Battalion Dorset Regt, Belfast, 1914.

Draft of Reservists arriving at Victoria Barracks Aug 7th 1914. Capt. Ransome (Adjt.) & Lieut. Pitt leading them in. & Sgt. Boater (on right).

1st Bn. Drums playing in a big draft of Reservists joining 1st Bn. Dorset Regiment at Victoria Barracks, Belfast, 8th August 1914.

Arrival of first draft of reservists at Victoria Barracks, Belfast, 6th August, 1914. Men being allotted to their platoons in D. Coy.

These last 5 photos taken by Captain R.E. Partridge, M.C. of D Company, 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment. These were presented to the Dorset Regimental Museum in February 1965.