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Team of eleven men, three seated cross-legged, five kneeling, three standing with three other men in suits.
Teams wearing studded boots and sports shirts with Cornish, two wearing belts.
Image shows photograph with torn edges pinned to board.

Outside Trinity House

From a negative made of the album

From a negative made of the album

From a negative made of the album

Lamorna Birch at work

Lamorna Valley

Three men and a dog, the men are pushing their bicycles. Lamorna Birch on the left.

Lamorna Birch on left with two men speaking to a lady.

Lamorna Birch sitting in a small boat

Royal Navy’s First Diesel Powered Sub Launched 105 Years Ago Today

On 16th May 1908 HMS D1, the first of the D Class Submarines of the Royal Navy was launched. The photo above, taken by Stephen Cribb, shows the D1 moored in Portsmouth harbour…

The Dunboyne was a full-rigged ship built at Whitehaven and launched in March 1888. Now renamed the af Chapman she is still afloat, and is reputedly the World's third oldest surviving iron-built ship (the Euterpe, built in the Isle of Man, is one…

The trawler is shown ashore, under Tregiffian Cliffs, near Lamorna
The boat had developed engine trouble in heavy seas. The Master and deckhand were saved by rocket apparatus (Breeches Buoy), but the other lives were lost.

The trawler is aground at Bass Point, The Lizard.
The crew of 29 were saved but the ship's cat was marooned aboard for two days then saved by a local fishing boat.

Subject has two downward pointing chevrons, which may indicate rank of corporal or time served. Also at the number 24 on left sleeve

Subject has unknown insignia and initials RFC on left breast pocket on jacket. Possibly a football club?