“German Manoeuvres, 1909” (BRDW 1/2/44)

Photograph of WSC [President of the Board of Trade], in a dark uniform [of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry] with a peaked cap, shaking hands with Kaiser Wilhelm II, while on manoeuvres in Germany. There is a car in the foreground, with WSC and the Kaiser (bending down from horseback, with his back to the camera) standing in the middle distance, and numerous German soldiers behind them.

Sep 1906