Uniforms of another kind THERE wasn't a cloud in their sky when these immaculately turned-out lads of Sutton Boys Brigade posed for a celebration photograph during their annual summer camp at Skegness.
But a tragic shadow was to be cast across their young lives. For this was 1910, and the first world war -- bringing uniforms of a different type for most of these brigade members -- was just four years in the future.
It was a devastating conflict that would see many of these bright-eyed youngsters killed in action on foreign soil, including Harry, the 20-year-old brother of Edith Carter (now 90) of Mill Lane, Sutton, who forwarded this sorrow-tinged photographic memory.
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