WW1 UK 1915 photo postcard Sheerwater Surrey soldiers (fusiliers?)

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Photo taken in Surrey of a group of English soldiers (fusilier cap badges?) from Sheerwater (Woking) Surrey. One uniform has three chevrons (sergeant).

Note identifies card as a souvenir of English soldiers coming from the Indies (India?) and passing through on their way to Lyon France.

Titled ‘The Bhoys of Sheerwater’. Photographer LR ‘Witon Byfleet

Byfleet is small village in Surrey.

On back (in French)

Souvenirs d’un convoi de soldats anglais venant des Indes et passant à Lyon

7/1/1915

Souvenir of a convoy of English solders from the Indies headed to Lyon

Crease UR. Some smudges on back.

 

Sheerwater is a residential neighbourhood or small suburb of Woking, in the Woking district in Surrey, England, occasionally described as a village, between West Byfleet and Horsell.

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