I have a photocopy of a postcard 'montage' of photos recovered from an elderly aunt's possessions (Nottingham) which shows: 1. 4 cobblers with their workbench showing cobblers 'last' and one sitting in front repairing a boot. 2. Troop of solders waving flags - would this be drill for communicating messages?3. 3. Soldiers relaxing outside their tents. 4. Soldier is having his hair cut, sitting on an ammunition box with the words "BATTN (either 5807 or 3807) YORKSHIRE REGT." with older soldiers awaiting their turn. In the centre of the postcard has been pinned an oval photograph of:- 5. A soldier with full drum kit - I believe he may have some bearing to GARTON family. I am wondering if anyone else has a copy of this postcard and whether they have been able to identify the locations or the dates of the photographs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My uncle, Leonard Garton (1887 - 1918) was first enlisted into the Yorkshire Regt on a short service engagement in February 1915. He was transferred to Army Reserve the following day, remobilized in March 1916 and again transferred to the Reserve, remobilised again in April 1917 and Posted to the Depot and then to the 2/5th Battalion. He embarked UK in January 1918 and was transferred to the Durham Light Infantry and posted to the 7th Battalion. He died of his wounds at No. 6. General Hospital in France on the 30th March 1918 (Eastertime) and is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension near Rouen. I was reminded of this while watching the life story of Vera Brittain yesterday on BBC1. In her book "Testament of Youth" she recounts the story of 'The Flood' describing "the crushing tension of those extreme days. Nothing had ever quite equalled them before - not the Somme, not Arras, not Passchendaele - for into our minds had crept for the first time the secret, incredible fear that we might lose the War......." On the 27th March Albert was taken and she says "Gradually we became conscious that we were in the midst of what a War historian afterwards called "the most formidable offensive in the history of the world" ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ He was engaged to a Mary Cooke and I was told that she never married. I have a photograph of them together - presumably taken before he went abroad. I wonder if she was the Mary, daughter of William Alfred Cooke (a groom) and Kate (nee Keeley) who were married in 1886 at St. Stephens church, and who lived in 1889 at Yates Yard, Radford St. Peter when they baptised Mary on the 9th July? Is there a Cooke relative who can tell me more about Mary? Mavis.