Mary Gilbertson’s Engagement to Captain Hugh Vivian.

Title: Mary Gilbertson’s Engagement to Captain Hugh Vivian.
Creator: André Cluysenaar (painting photographed by Dr. David Hugh Jones) and Aubrey Colquhoun, Swansea.
Date: 1915 and 1917
Description: Portrait of Mary Gilbertson painted in 1915 by the Belgian artist André Cluysenaar, which now hangs in the Council Room (formerly the Great Dining Room) of Singleton Abbey. Hugh Vivian (1884 – 1956) photographed in 1917 in the uniform of the Army Service Corps.

This was a logistics division, supplying the front lines with food, equipment and ammunition, and organising transportation by horse and motor vehicles, railways and waterways.
Rights Holder: Swansea University and West Glamorgan Archive Service D/D Vi 3/170