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Todd Family Collection
2nd Lieutenant Ernest Victor Todd and Major Thomas Charles Victor Todd MBE

Photo and Scrap album relating to the service of Ernest Victor Todd with the Royal Engineers in the First World War - later commissioned into the King’s Own

Portrait photograph: ‘Recruits’ E V Todd, number 94869, Royal Engineers.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-01

Portrait photograph: ‘Recruits’ Harold Tabbiner, number 94880, Royal Engineers.
Harold Tabbiner, was later commissioned and is recorded as a 2nd Lieutenant.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-02

‘Settling Down to it’ ‘Our home on the Plain’ 153rd Field Company Royal Engineers, 37th Division. View of tented camp Tidworth Park, Salisbury Plain.
Photograph by T L Fuller, Amesbury
Accession Number: KO1930/45-03

‘Mates’ at Sailsbury, Jun 1915.
Lance Corporal Skyrme, Lance Corporal Rogers, Lance Corporal Howell, Lance corporal Todd, Corporal Jefferies, and Lance Corporal Dumbrell. Royal Engineers.
 Corporal Edwin Howell, number 48792, 153rd Field Company, Royal Engineers, died 29 Jun 1916. Husband of Emily Alice Howell, of 55 Maud Road, Plaistow, London. Buried in Berles-Au-Bois Churchyard Extension.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-04

Pontooning near Christchurch, Mudeford, Jul 1915.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-05

‘Ready for Overseas’ ‘Old Dick’ ‘Ted’ ‘Skyrmie’ and ‘Toddie’ Jul 1915.
Embarked 31 Jul 1915.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-06

Pass: ‘No 94869 Corporal E V Todd attached 154th Field Company, Royal Engineers has orders to Survey the trenches. This pass is to give him access to all trenches from the front line back to the Gastineau Road. Dated 20 Feb 1916. Signed by Captain E C B Mackintosh, The Officer Commanding, 154th (Field) Company, Royal Engineers.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-07

Building at Gastineau, ‘in front of which are the trenches referred to.’
Accession Number: KO1930/45-08

Watercolour drawing, in two halves, of GEM, Western Front, France 4 Sep 1916 ‘Our “Quarter-Bloke!”.
A Blackpool meeting at the front. GE Martin late of the Gazette & News and of the Tower Advertising Staff caricatures E V Todd, Late Honorary Secretary of the Blackpool Amateur Swimming Club.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-09

Newspaper cutting concerning Staff Sergeant Ernest Victor Todd, who has been home on short leave from France.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-10

Bailleulval
Accession Number: KO1930/45-11

Corporal Arthur Gosling, Royal Engineers
Accession Number: KO1930/45-12

Driver Wilfred Shard, number 51048, Royal Engineers
Accession Number: KO1930/45-13

Dick Rogers
Accession Number: KO1930/45-14

Some of the Lads (Royal Engineers)
Accession Number: KO1930/45-15

Sergeant Richard Rogers, Royal Engineers. ‘He would swank in his sheepskin’ Taken at Doullens, Mar 19116
Accession Number: KO1930/45-16

‘Well seasoned by now’ Corporals E V Todd and H Tabbiner, Royal Engineers.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-17

‘Getting on’ Company Quartermaster Sergeant E V Todd.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-18

Sergeant S Page and Sergeant Harold Tabbiner, number 94880, Royal Engineers.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-19

Corporal P V Jefferies, Royal Engineers.
Accession Number: KO1930/45-20

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