Title: Revere Osler in Uniform on the Terrace of 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford
Location: Oxford (England)
Date: between 1914-1917
Physical Description: image.photograph.black and white
10.8 x 8.2 cm including borders
9.9 x 7.3 cm excluding borders
Image Number: CUS_091-018A_P
Description: Revere Osler in uniform, smiling and facing the garden on the terrace of 13 Norham Gardens, the Oslers' Oxford home. During the First World War the minimum age for military service was nineteen years; in the first year of the war, too young to serve, Revere belonged to the Oxford University Officers' Training Corps. He turned 19 on December 28, 1914, and joined the McGill Medical Unit in 1915. In 1916, expressing a desire to see combat, Revere joined the Royal Field Artillery. He died in Ypres, Belgium, on August 30, 1917, of wounds sustained in an attack, and was buried in Flanders, Belgium.
Subject Osler, Edward Revere, 1895-1917
Subject Military uniforms
Subject Soldiers
Subject Terraces
Subject Oxford (England)
Subject Great Britain. Army. Royal Field Artillery -- Uniforms
Publisher: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University
is Part Of: Cushing Collection
This item is the property of the Osler Library of McGill University. For information about acquiring a copy and/or permission to reproduce an image, please contact the Osler Library.
Location: Oxford (England)
Date: between 1914-1917
Physical Description: image.photograph.black and white
10.8 x 8.2 cm including borders
9.9 x 7.3 cm excluding borders
Image Number: CUS_091-018A_P
Description: Revere Osler in uniform, smiling and facing the garden on the terrace of 13 Norham Gardens, the Oslers' Oxford home. During the First World War the minimum age for military service was nineteen years; in the first year of the war, too young to serve, Revere belonged to the Oxford University Officers' Training Corps. He turned 19 on December 28, 1914, and joined the McGill Medical Unit in 1915. In 1916, expressing a desire to see combat, Revere joined the Royal Field Artillery. He died in Ypres, Belgium, on August 30, 1917, of wounds sustained in an attack, and was buried in Flanders, Belgium.
Subject Osler, Edward Revere, 1895-1917
Subject Military uniforms
Subject Soldiers
Subject Terraces
Subject Oxford (England)
Subject Great Britain. Army. Royal Field Artillery -- Uniforms
Publisher: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University
is Part Of: Cushing Collection
This item is the property of the Osler Library of McGill University. For information about acquiring a copy and/or permission to reproduce an image, please contact the Osler Library.