Photographs Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1974.32.1.6 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
Photograph, Shorncliffe Encampment, 1915-1918 |
Year Range from |
1915 |
Year Range to |
1918 |
Description |
Black and white photograph of the regiment encampment at Shorncliffe in Kent, England dated between 1915-1918. Two lines of white, conical tents are set on either side of a compacted walkway. Two signs reading "B Company" (left) and "C Company" (right) are set at the end of the rows of tents. From 1915-1918, Shorncliffe was a staging post for troops destined for the Western Front. Shorncliffe was the largest of the bases located on the Kent coast and just twenty miles from France. As the transitory home to thousands of soldiers, it was dubbed by some "a suburb of Toronto". In April 1915 a Canadian Training Division was formed there. The Canadian Army Medical Corps had general hospitals based at Shorncliffe from September 1917 to December 1918. The camp at that time composed five-unit lines known as Moore Barracks, Napier Barracks, Risborough Barracks, Ross Barracks and Somerset Barracks. |
Search Terms |
World War I 2nd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Forces (C.E.F.) |
Subjects |
WORLD WAR I (WWI) - 1914 - 1918 MILITARY - ARMY |
Collection |
Photographs |