Harry Canvin’s ‘GSH’ slides

The images shown here are (to quote Harry’s notes) of photographs “from the collection of Lt. Col. Graham Seton Hutchison – copied – loaned to me by his son Dr. James Hutchison”. GSH served in and led actions including ‘The Quarry’, ‘Meteren’ and ‘High Wood’.

There are many more slides in Harry’s collection used for his GSH talks; but as far as I can tell the images which dated from the War were copied by Harry from published books he owned, so I haven’t included them. Others are of a trip Harry made with James in 1995 to visit places significant to GSH, some of which James had visited with his father in 1937.

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1914 Field Gun "Mother"
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1914 Field Gun "Mother" being fired
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French/Belgian? gun being fired
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Vickers Machine Gun training
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Lewis Gun AA training
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Ruined farm or village
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G.S.H sitting. Field gun passing
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Argyles crossing pontoon
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Vickers learning. Armentieres.
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1914 Bois Grenier breastworks
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1914 Bois Grenier breastworks
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"Armistice"? 1914 Bois Grenier
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"Armistice"? 1914 Bois Grenier
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Piper Peter McLintock ? 14/15
He was G.S.H's batman, killed in action
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Yser or Lys?
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Ground view of no man's land
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Winter - troops sitting it out
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Officers sitting it out
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Gun positions & crew
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Gun positions & crew
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Dry trench
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Wet trench
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Wet trench
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Ruined farm
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No man's land through trusses
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Zonnebeke Church
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Zonnebeke Church 1917
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Ypres - Cloth Hall 1917
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Ypres - Menin Gate 1917
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Ypres - St. Martin's
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