The Rifle Grenade - Ypres Salient, Spring 1915

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This is a photograph which is part of a series which were taken in Ypres Salient, probably in reserve trenches but very close to the front line. The presence of cameras in the front line was strictly forbidden but Private F.A. Fyfe, a press photographer by profession, certainly used his miniature camera in the front line as the rare photographs taken under fire during the charge at Hooge in June 1915 demonstrate. The man who took these photos (very possibly Captain R.F.B. Dickinson) must have been close to the Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. JR Davidson, as the CO features in many of them. This series of photos had quite a wide distribution amongst the men of the battalion as surviving albums (including Captain Dickinson's own album) in the Museum demonstrate.