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Images of original published article front
cover, Major Bromhead's heading and first page of
the manuscript.
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Local Defence Volunteers on parade at
Bristol
Grammar School, probably on Sunday June 9th
or 16th 1940, or one of the early Sunday parades as
they are described by Major J. H. Bromhead.
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Cpl. John Francis
Smith, probably 1940, unknown location
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Presentation to Sgt.
John Francis Smith on his departure from
11th Gloster, 1941.
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Sgt. John Francis
Smith, extreme left, parading directly
outside "R" Coy. H.Q., St.
Albin's Club, Cossins Road in 1941.
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Another view of the same parade.
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Home Guard parade on
Durdham Downs,
possibly Sunday 28th September 1941.
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11th (City of Bristol)
Battalion Home Guard marching proudly,
probably behind Major J.H.
Bromhead, from
Durdham Downs along
Redland Hill on
Sunday 28th September 1941, following inspection
by Field Marshall Lord
Birdwood.
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Further along the same column at the same
location.
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“S” Company, 11th Gloster
(City of Bristol) Battalion Home Guard
marching past College Green, Bristol on parade.
Date unknown, but possibly it is the “Warship
Week” parade of 3rd December 1941.
(Image by
courtesy of Richard Hope-Hawkins)
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“S” Company, 11th Gloster
(City of Bristol) Battalion Home Guard on
parade marching along
Westbury Road towards
Durdham Down;
the entrance to
Badminton School can be seen in the
background. Date unknown.
(Image
by courtesy of Richard Hope-Hawkins)
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A map showing
Cribbs Causeway and surrounding areas circa
1941. Haw Wood, North
Hill Cottage, Norton Farm, Brent Knoll House, Lamb
& Flag and
Cribb Farm are places of interest and
mentioned in the Major Bromhead's History.
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2/Lt. John Francis
Smith, 8th North Staffordshire
(Burton) Battalion, probably 1942 or
later.
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8th North Staffordshire
(Burton) Battalion.
Lt. John Francis
Smith, now promoted, is in the front row
ninth from the left.
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Lt. John Francis Smith,
(front row, 3rd from left), and an officer to his
left, holding trophies, possibly following a
shooting competition.
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The Officers of the 8th
Staffordshire (Burton) Battalion
at
Stand Down, late 1944
(Lt. John Francis Smith
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second row, 3rd from
right)
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