Description:This is a commissioning photograph taken of Reginald Tivey when he became an officer in 1917. He had worked as a elephant hunter in Africa before joining up as part of the 9th North Staffordshire Regiment in 1914 as a private. He served in France and Flanders before being severely wounded by shrapnel in his right leg and taken back to England to recover. In 1919, he married Katie Birks, the daughter of the famous ceramic artist Alboin Birks.