WIRRAL Memories is hoping readers can help solve the mystery of this photo, which was sent in by Sandra Hunt.

Sandra found the photo in an old album belonging to her mother.

She said: "It shows a group of Scouts and Cubs along with four nurses and two men who could possibly be hospital porters or ambulance drivers.

"The inscription on the board in the centre of the picture reads:

Somerville Council School
Seacombe, Wallasey.
National Service Group.
____dy, A___ Ready. Nov 11th 1918.

"I think the words on the last line could be a motto but they are partially hidden by the boys heads.

"My father Percy Robert Mander is on the photo aged 8 years. He is on the extreme left as you look sitting on front of the nurse who is seated.

"I would dearly love to know what the occasion was; a parade for Armastice Day perhaps, and why are there nurses in the photo?

"Was the school used as a hospital in the war? Why are the Scouts wearing ties and not the traditional neckers? What was the National Service Group and are the words at the bottom indeed their motto?

Do you know anything about this photo - or can you tell us anything about the National Service Group or Somerville Council School? If so please leave your comments below.

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