Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
Do we know where the photo was taken? The ground is not cut up or badly shelled, there's no barbed wire or other battlefield detritus in evidence, so might it be a little behind the front line?

Judging by the Brodie helmets it must be 1916 or later - wasn't the order to omit fitting the piling swivel given in the LoC in 1916? (Again, correct me if my memory has got it wrong). No doubt the practice may have continued for a while after....
No such mention in the LoC, that is a myth, the only mention of piling swivels was they were to be omitted from rifles in certain rolls, there was a new narrow pattern introduced in the 1920s & it carried on being fitted to rifles till 1941