Vintage 1905 Rifle Brigade Chronicle Owned By John William Winterbottom of B company who enlisted in 1900, John was posted to South Africa at the end of the Boer war, he was also one of the first of the British expeditionary force to land in France at le Harve in 1914, he served in the western front saw action and was wounded and died while being treated in an ambulance near Paris, a fascinating history of one man.