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An album of photographs and ephemera recording the life and adventures of Lieutenant Cyril Shakespear Beachcroft (1893-1917) to include scenes from his childhood, Charterhouse School, climbs in the Swiss Alps, together with an interesting group of original photographs and press cuttings detailing the dramatic rescue of three inexperienced German mountaineers (Drs. Theel, Sander and Seckelmann from Berlin) on the Jungfrau by C. Beachcroft, I. Scott Tucker and the Rev. H.E. Newton (of the Alpine Club) 24 th July 1910; and another album, dated July 1912, showing an aeroplane landing at Leopardstown race course September 7 th 1912 and family portraits of Verelst Turner Worship and others. (2)

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