This formal group of soldiers in front of the village hall is dated January 1913.
Tragically, five years later this group would have been much reduced.
For example, on the First day of The Somme........ 58,000 British casualties including 20,000 dead.

It's worth noting that in 1919 Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig was given an Earldom
and £100,000 by a "grateful nation".(several million pounds at todays values)

I wonder what the soldiers seen above (and their widows) got?

I've no further information on this photograph.