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Cpl. · 1/16 Queen's Westminster Rifles

Herbert Stagg

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NaamStagg
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VoornaamHerbert

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After the war became manager of Macmillan's in Madras.

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Regiment / Eenheid1/16 Queen's Westminster Rifles

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Billeted in the storehouse next door, he was involved in transforming the attic of Talbot House into a Chapel in January 1916. He framed the altarpiece, Perugino's 'Crucifixion', "in the broken top of a wicker table, with a lick of gold paint round the bamboo edging".
Information 2
After the Battle of the Somme he returned north to recuperate in an entrenching battalion and was attached to the Talbot House staff. On 19.12.1916 he "put the Christmas Crib into the alcove on the staircase, fitting it with electric light". He was called back to his unit in Sept. 1917.

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Source
Louagie, J., A Touch of Paradise in Hell: index