Captain R.E. Partridge – Page 2

Behind the lines

REP WW1 photo 44 — Rear Headquarters, 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment at Neuve Eglise, November 1914.

REP WW1 photo 37 — 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment. Pioneers making wooden stakes for barbed wire entanglements at our transport lines, Neuve Eglise, 10th November 1914. Pioneer Sergt. in centre. R.S.M. Pell on right.

*Capt. Christopher Browne ASC, & another ASC officer of our Coy of the Divisional Train, 15th Inf Bde, 5th Div. Taken at Dranoutre [Dranouter], Nov. 1914.*

REP WW1 photo 35c — The engine of an Armoured Train in Bethune Railway Station, 23rd or 25th October, 1914. It is manned by naval men.

REP WW1 photo 35b — Car of a Naval Armoured train in Bethune Railway Station, 23rd or 25th October, 1914.

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.

D Coy, Burnt Farm, Wulverghem

REP WW1 photo 24 — Officers of D Company, 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment at Burnt Farm, about 400 yards from Wulverghem Church and 500 yards from our front line. Left to right: Lt. Wheeler, Lt. Wood (standing), Capt. R.E. Partridge, Lt. Morley

*D Company, 1st Battalion, Dorset Regiment: Sgt. Major Steer, servants and orderlies at Burnt Farm, near Wulverghem, Jan. 1915. D Company was in Battalion support.*

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

The Trenches: Wytschaete, Wulverghem, Messines, Ypres

Two men of ‘D’ Coy., 1st Bn. Dorset Regt. in a support trench, having their dinner. One man is bending low so as to be under cover from a sniper who was busy at this moment. Taken January 1915 opposite Wytschaete.

*View taken in our front line trench no.15 A, opposite Wytschaete, February 1915. German trenches by tree in background. Man in centre has just fired a shot through a loophole.*

*Our barbed wire in front of our fire trench no.15A opposite Wytschaete. German barbed wire and trench in front of trees in background. February 1915.*

*View of ‘No Man’s Land’ and German trench along trees. German listening post by stump of old tree. Taken from our support trench opposite Wytschaete, February 1915.*

*My dug-out in 15A trench. 2nd Lt. Wood cooking my breakfast on a Primus stove. Telephone office in dug-out on right entrance just showing. Opposite Wytschaete. Jan. 1915.*

*Lt. Wood cooking my breakfast in my ‘dug out’ in fire trench near Wulverghem-Wytschaete Road, Jan. 1915.*

*Wytschaete, February 1915. Captain R.E. Partridge coming back along communication trench after having observed for an Artillery battery*.

*Communication trench looking from our support trench towards fire trench. German trenches are near trees in background. Taken near Wulverghem – Wytschaete Road, February 1915.*

Ruined farmhouse opposite Messines, Jan. 1915. It was used as an Artillery O.P. and it was from here that Major … R.F.A. directed the fire of his battery which happened to hit an enemy ammunition dump on Messines Ridge. For this he was awarded a D.S.O. Photo taken from the back of one of our C.T.s.

*Captain R.E. Partridge, M.C. at railway embankment dug outs near Ypres, 10th July 1915.*

*Lt. Lindsay, R.A.M.C. – M.O. to 1st Bn. Dorset Regt. – swatting flies at railway embankment dug outs, near Ypres, 10th July 1915.*

My latrine in support trench opposite Wytschaete, February 1915.

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

Making wooden stakes for barbed wire entanglements

Photo no.37 of 55 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.

Reservists at Victoria Barracks, Belfast, Aug. 1914

REP WW1 photo 6 — Arrival of first draft of reservists at Victoria Barracks, Belfast, 6th August, 1914. Men being allotted to their platoons in D. Coy, 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment.

Photo no.6 of 55 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.