17th (Northern) Division
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The 17th Division was an infantry division of the British Army, a Kitchener's Army formation raised during the Great War.
Albert 1 - 13 July: Officers of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters wearing captured German helmets and with a tripod camera, accordion and pet dog after fighting during the battles of early July. The dog was found in a dug-out.
Officers of the 7th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), York and Lancaster Regiment, in a ruined building in Arras, 30 April 1917.
Thomas Pilcher
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Major-General Thomas David Pilcher, CB was a British Army officer, who commanded a mounted infantry unit in the Second Boer War and the 17th Division during the First World War, before being removed f
17th (Northern) Division
…Service) Battalion, West Yorkshires, suffered very heavy casualties, the highest sustained by any British unit on that day. On 13 July Major General Thomas Pilcher, who had been in command since January 1915, was sacked by his superiors, who were not impressed with him. He was replaced by Major General Philip…
Pilcher, photographed in South Africa, c. 1900
A group of British and Australian mounted infantry officers, circa 1900, including Pilcher (seated centre, with pith helmet)