| Accession Number | P00600.002 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Film copy negative |
| Date made | 1920 |
| Conflict |
Period 1920-1929 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Copy of a hand-coloured portrait of 1066 Sergeant William Charles Bullock Beech. Sgt Beech is ...
Description
Copy of a hand-coloured portrait of 1066 Sergeant William Charles Bullock Beech. Sgt Beech is credited as being one of the inventors of the periscope rifle during his service with the 2nd Battalion on Gallipoli in 1915. Beech is wearing the ribbon bars to the Queen's South African Medal and King's South African Medal next to his 1914-15 Star. Beech served in the South African War with the British Army unit the Volunteer Field Artillery and with the Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry for five years.
There is some artistic licence taken by the photography studio with the colouring as the chevrons have been added to the left sleeve in the foreground (which is not usual) and the ribbon for the 1914-15 star has been reversed. Such anomalies are not uncommon in images produced and painted or coloured by studios.