1st Lancaster Troop - 1909
Pictured at the Castle Hotel, Hornby at Easter (April) 1909.
© Lonsdale Archive Collection
Scoutmaster John Richard (Dick) Erskine (centre) (b. 1890), Lawrence & Hector Todd are 4th and 5th from left - most look very young!
Dick was the son of John R. & Betsy Erskine formerly of Hope Street. John was a soldier with the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment who died in the Boer War and is commemorated on the South African War Memorial 1899-1902. The names of the fallen are recorded in the Regimental Chapel of the Regiment in Lancaster Priory Church. This memorial records the names of 18 officers and 264 other ranks.
Lawrence Todd was born c. Sept 1901, Hector was born c. March 1900. If the date of the photo is correct this makes those two 7 and 9 respectively.