The Wicked Boy (51 page)

Speculative reconstructions of the crime and its aftermath, published in the
Illustrated Police Budget
on 27 July 1895 (
main image
) and the
Illustrated Police News
on 3 August 1895 (
inset
).

The gatehouse to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, photographed in 1910, and (
below
) the upper terrace of the asylum, with Block 2 on the right.

David Nicolson (
above left
), superintendent of Broadmoor from 1886 to 1896, with Richard Brayn, his successor; an asylum terrace in the early 1900s (
above right
); and (
below
) a plan of the male quarters in 1902 – Block 2 is in the bottom right-hand corner.

The Broadmoor cricket team in 1905 – none of the players is identified, but Robert Coombes may be the man sitting on the grass second from left.

Dormitories of the Salvation Army colony overlooking the Thames at Hadleigh, Essex, in the early 1900s, and (
below
) a plan of the colony in about 1912.

An Australian training camp in northern Egypt at the beginning of the Great War, and (
below
) the 13th Battalion band soon after its formation in Australia in November 1914. Robert Coombes is probably the soldier in spectacles in the back row, third from left.

Gallipoli, 1915: Anzac troops attacking the Turks (
top
); an Australian recruitment poster (
above
); and stretcher bearers on the beach (
right
).

Australian troops on the Western Front in October 1917, and (
below
) the 45th Battalion band in northern France in March 1918 – Robert is in the front row, holding a cornet, behind the biggest drum.