Lieutenant General SIr RIchard Cyril Byrne Haking and a group of officers including Captain Duncan Bairnsfather, 1917 (c)

Photograph, 1917 (c).

Captain Duncan Bairnsfather (far left) was the younger brother of the artist Bruce Bairnsfather. He was appointed to serve as Aide-de-camp (ADC) to Lieutenant General Sir RIchard Cyril Byrne Haking (1862-1945) in March 1917. General Haking commanded XI Corps on the Western Front, during World War One (1914-1918), from September 1915 until the end of the War.

From an album relating to Captain Duncan Bairnsfather, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.