'Charge of the London Scottish', Messines, 1914
Lantern slide by Newton and Company, with the 'Netownian' trademark used in the 1910s, after artist Ernest Prater (1864-1950), 1914 (c).
14th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (London Scottish) wearing kilts and glengarry caps, mounting a counterattack on German positions on the Messines Ridge on 31 October 1914. The ridge was regarded as strategically important as it overlooked the city of Ypres.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1978-11-157-7-64
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1978-11-157-7-64
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