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Re: The Canaries April 1917
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 26 July 18 10:19 BST (UK) »
Absolutely.  Privates as staff members?  Cooks and bottle-washers?  Who knows?

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Re: The Canaries April 1917
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 26 July 18 12:57 BST (UK) »
Can we see the back?
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: The Canaries April 1917
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 26 July 18 18:49 BST (UK) »
Hi Jim

Here is the back. It does not say much or even tell I should say.

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Burgess; Burchett; Piper; Tedham; Anscombe; Wilmshurst; in Sussex
Greening; Merret; Hanman; Heaven; Knight; in Gloucestershire
Parsons; Hill; Angell; Sage; Watts; Lovell; Hurford; Evered; Bull; in Somerset
Hunt; Mintrim; Hampshire
Warth/Worth; Germany, London, Hampshire
Tyler; London, Buckinghamshire

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Re: The Canaries April 1917
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 26 July 18 19:49 BST (UK) »
Taken in the UK. The French had their own postcards & this isn't one of them.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: The Canaries April 1917
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 26 July 18 20:32 BST (UK) »
Are they Isolated just as the door behind them indicates?

However not vey wise to take a photograph of so many "Isolated" men.


Another reference to the word "Canaries" in World War I is of those women working filling shells during the war who became ill due to the chemicals in the explosives.


http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/02/17/the-canary-girls-and-the-wwi-poisons-that-turned-them-yellow/

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Re: The Canaries April 1917
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 26 July 18 21:25 BST (UK) »
As there's a lack of NCO's in this it's possible they were in the UK on an instructor's training course (if there was any such thing) so armbands but no stripes yet.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: The Canaries April 1917
« Reply #15 on: Friday 27 July 18 19:01 BST (UK) »
Canaries was the WW1 slang for military trg instructors at depots.  They wore yellow brassrds or arm bands.   
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