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Devon Volunteers c1907

Devon Volunteers (later Territorials) at camp probably Dartmoor c1907. Red coats, white belts, blue trousers with a red stripe. Most of these men worked in Tuckenhay Paper Mill. No paid holidays so camps took place when mill was closed down in August for annual maintainance repairs like chipping the boilers etc. Back row L2R, J.Gordon, ? Gordon, George Evans, Clem Smith. Front - Sam Robertson, Ewart Chapham, Albert Lynn (father of J.D.Lynn) died Dec 1911. DRA 3109 TH 0047