They are Harry Broadhead, with the sash and flat cap, sitting just to the right of the big drum, and his son, Albert, aged only eight or nine, squatting second from right on the front row.
How Albert – and an even younger looking boy sitting next to the big drum – came to be in the band of the volunteer battalion associated with the 4th battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment is something of a mystery.
Perhaps it was because his father, Harry, who rose to become Drum Major, was a talented musician. The two of them would go with the rest of their unit to Territorial Army camps.
Albert was, in fact, one of 11 child- ren of Harry and Fanny Broadhead, of whom eight survived infancy.
Albert and three of his brothers joined up to fight for King and Country in the Great War and although one of them, Frank, never fought, being invalided out because of arthritis, the other three did.
Albert was gassed, his brother, Harry Jr, was wounded, and Wallace was killed at the Somme on may 27, 1918, at the age of 19. Albert was mentioned in dispatches for his courage in carrying to safety a wounded comrade.
The other children were sisters Lily, Phyllis, who died at the age of 26, and Edith and their brother, Jack, the young-est of the boys, who served in the 1939-45 war. Charles died at age seven in 1899, Florrie died, aged three, in 1897, and Fanny lived for only five months in 1902.
The family lived at various addresses in Halifax; in 1941, when Harry Snr and Fanny were celebrating their golden wedding anniversary, they lived at Wyvern Place, Pellon.
The photos here were sent to me by Muriel Maskill, of Hullett Drive, Mytholmroyd, the eldest granddaughter of Harry and Fanny and daughter of Frank, who it seems was a bit of a character, a man who, like his father, was a talented musician, in this case a trained singer who sang in cinemas to accompany the then silent movies.
He also had a variety of jobs, from butcher to horse-and-cart haulier, who also worked at Collinson's famous tea warehouse in St John's Place and eventually set up a fish and chip shop in Haugh Shaw Road, where he was called on to train other local fish fryers.
The other thing that connected many of the Broadhead clan was the Post Office.
Father Harry, along with sons Harry, Albert and Wallace – the brother who was to die fighting the Germans – all worked at the then new post office at Commercial Street before the first world war, Harry Junior in the telephone section.
Albert retired early, at 59, still suffering from his wartime gassing. Harry Snr was a postman, then inspector of messages, retiring after 31 years.
Wallace was among 14 workers at the post office who were killed in the Great War and they were commemorated in a framed memorial of their photographs over the simple tribute: "In memory of comrades who fell in the war 1914-1919. Post Office, Halifax".
Ninety years on from the armistice of 1918 Muriel Maskill wonders whether there are still alive relatives of the other 13 who died and if so would like to contact them. Muriel lives at 20, Hullett Drive, Mytholmroyd (tel: 01422 885557).