My first posting with pictures attached so please be patient if I don't get this right.
I attach a scan of a picture (IWM Q2005) which, according to the caption, shows the 22nd West Yorks, a labour battalion, in a mine crater at Beaumont Hamel in November 1916.
I also attach a couple of details from this picture and I wonder of anyone can shed light on these.
The first is of a number of men in what I assume is RFC uniform and I'm curious about why they should be in such an unlikely place - accompanying the photographer, perhaps?
The second shows a structure of some kind: can anyone identify what it is? A mobile canteen? A storage hut?
Hmmm. I think the gents in the sidecaps are actually RFC. The caps don't look like the U.S. Overseas cap, and a couple of the men are wearing the "Maternity Tunic". Maybe they're just "slumming". I think I can see a British Service cap in there, as well, on the left of photo 2.
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