Image:Public Schools Battalion at White City 1916.jpg

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Commonly believed to be a company of the Public Schools Battalion (16th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment) at "White City", opposite Beaumont Hamel prior to the Battle of the Somme, 1916. (Alternatively, the men may be from the 1st Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment on 1 July 1916.)

Imperial War Museum catalogue number Q 796.

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