Photograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades
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Photograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades
Description
(Originally shared through the Great War Archive)
On the right, Kenneth Viner Tallett (1898-1987) was born Buckingham Street, Grandpont, Oxford was an apprentice printer (Bryans) until enlisting in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in January 1915. After training in Northampton and Essex he wet to France in the Arras region. He returned to England in 1918 and until demobilisation was an orderly at the Ashurst Military Hospital at Littlemore, Oxford, where he met and later married Mabel Taylor (my mother) ex R.A.O.C. Didcot/Milton Depot. Ken Tallett had three brothers - Horace, James, Kings Royal Rifles (killed at Arras 1917), Edward (Harry) civilian war work, and Ron (too young, but fought in WW2).
On the right, Kenneth Viner Tallett (1898-1987) was born Buckingham Street, Grandpont, Oxford was an apprentice printer (Bryans) until enlisting in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in January 1915. After training in Northampton and Essex he wet to France in the Arras region. He returned to England in 1918 and until demobilisation was an orderly at the Ashurst Military Hospital at Littlemore, Oxford, where he met and later married Mabel Taylor (my mother) ex R.A.O.C. Didcot/Milton Depot. Ken Tallett had three brothers - Horace, James, Kings Royal Rifles (killed at Arras 1917), Edward (Harry) civilian war work, and Ron (too young, but fought in WW2).
Contributor
Jim Tallett, through the Great War Archive
Licence
This item is from The Great War Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa); © Jim Tallett
made available under the JISC Model Licence.
made available under the JISC Model Licence.
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Citation
“Photograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades,” Oxford at War 1914-1918, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.oxfordatwar.uk/items/show/29.
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