Photograph from Shropshire.

[ColinA]

I saw this picture on a Shropshire page, it is titled Minsterley.
My initial thought was a Home Guard bicycle, but looking at that rifle is it all much older?

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[smle addict]

Could it be a territorial soldier in WW1? Many territorial battalions were equipped with the Charger loading Lee Enfield Rifle, which that rifle appears to be.

[browningautorifle]

I think that well may be WW1 as well.

[Flying10uk]

This postcard photograph of mine is believed to date in the time frame of the very late 1800's to the very early 1900's and so probably about 1900. Looking at your photograph, the uniform looks a little more modern and so I would say, in the time frame, after my photo was taken up to just before WW1.

[MasterChief]

...at the 'Oar House.

Great picture!

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Is that electrical wiring on the eaves just behind the soldier's head?

If so, when was that part of Britain 'electrified?

[Alan de Enfield]

The WW1 bicycles - the 1914 Raleigh "Military Model"

[Alan de Enfield]

Ver light restoration of original Bicycle with reproduction tool bag (below cross-bar) :

[smerdon42]

Hey guys it wasn’t the last time a bicycle was able to help troops , not that it wasn’t important for the allies but the Japanese took the island of Singapore by riding bikes down the Malay peninsula to take the alleged island fortress run by poor British leadership . Many of my countrymen never came home due to being captured and place in Changi prison and then being forced on many of the marches up the Malay peninsular .

[mrclark303]

Hey guys it wasn’t the last time a bicycle was able to help troops , not that it wasn’t important for the allies but the Japanese took the island of Singapore by riding bikes down the Malay peninsula to take the alleged island fortress run by poor British leadership . Many of my countrymen never came home due to being captured and place in Changi prison and then being forced on many of the marches up the Malay peninsular .

Absolutely, many ANZAC veterans and their families felt justifiably very bitter towards Britain for the disastrous leadership in Singapore.

It was a very dark point in the war and their Japanese captors were cruel and brutal beyond belief.