Hidden Lives Revealed - Into the world: An 'old boy' in the 1st Seaforths Regiment

This boy spent several years in the Lincoln Home, before enlisting with the 1st Seaforths Regiment of the British Army and travelling to Egypt. The Society's magazine 'Our Waifs and Strays' stated that he was a 'typical example' of the Society's work, in that he had become 'a good soldier instead of a possible street loafer - or worse.'

Ref: WS113
Title: An 'old boy' in the 1st Seaforths Regiment
Date: 1903
Location: Unknown
Creator: Unknown, taken from Our Waifs and Strays, June 1903, page 100.

Description:
This boy spent several years in the Lincoln Home, before enlisting with the 1st Seaforths Regiment of the British Army and travelling to Egypt. The Society's magazine Our Waifs and Strays stated that he was a 'typical example' of the Society's work, in that he had become 'a good soldier instead of a possible street loafer - or worse.'

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