The Snapshots in Time Collection

Uniformed Serviceman with English Foxhound Pack, WWI-Era England

Uniformed Serviceman with English Foxhound Pack, WWI-Era England

A soldier in World War I-era uniform stands among a pack of English foxhounds during a hound exercise in the English countryside. Part of a collection linking Scott Field, Illinois — a U.S. Army Air Service training ground — with wartime negatives from England, this photograph likely captures an American serviceman's off-duty encounter with a local hunt while stationed overseas, circa 1917-1918. The image offers a glimpse of rural British life and social customs experienced by American servicemen far from the front. Project: 218233