PHOTOGRAPHIC

Title: Castleton Lanterns
Object Name: Lantern Slide
Maker: Hogg, A. R. (Primary maker)
Hogg, Alexander Robert (maker)
Date Made: 1918
1918
Place Made: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast
Description: Lantern slide produced by Hogg for an exhibition in 1918 ‘of our men at the front.' This slide shows an image of a man in a suit. He has been identified as Lance-Corporal James McCann, 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. McCann died on 1st July 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. According to a letter from a friend he was hit 3 or 4 times but the stomach wound he received was the fatal one. James was picked up by the stretcher bearers but died on the way to the dressing station.
Materials: glass
Place Collected
Date Collected: 2013
2013
Catalogue Number: BELUM.W2015.116.25
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