LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Rugby Central Station: gcrcs286

Soldiers are seen loading one of the Howitzer Battery's horses onto a railway cattle truck on 11th August 1914. The soldiers belonged to the 5th Howitzer Battery which was part of the 4th South Midland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The location is the goods yard Rugby's Great Central Station and the Battery's initial destination was Swindon.

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