'The Long and the Short of It. Kilmainham Camp Dublin 1922'

Photograph, Ireland, 1922.

A drummer boy poses with a veteran warrant officer who wears the Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal. Drummer boys and band boys (often soldiers' orphans) accompanied their regiments across the British Empire's many garrisons.

From an album of 82 photographs compiled by Brig B C S Clarke DSO (d 1969).