Description
Object description
Photographic prints covering aspects of the Mesopotamia Campaign, January 1916 - May 1918, mounted on 7 loose album boards. Subjects include river gunboats on the Tigris (HMS MOTH is named); the grave of Captain Nigel Clement Charles Hadden (RFA) killed at Beit Aissa on 6 April 1916; watering horses in the Tigris; a Martinsyde Elephant aircraft at Arab Village in 1916; various river steamers on the Tigris including the hospital ship SIKKIM, the SALIMI, P.51, P.52, S.4 and the signal launch L.12; I Corps horse show and pontoon boat race (the latter between crews representing I Corps HQ and 3rd Division HQ); British political officer with local Arab sheiks; Indian troops at washing place on River Tigris near I Corps HQ; field artillery of 28th Battery and A/56 Battery in action at Es Sinn and Sannaiyat; the HQ of C/69 Battery at Es Sinn; an artillery OP at Abu Rowan and 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns at Es Sinn. Also, two interesting photographs showing part of the prisoner exchange with the Turks at Sannaiyat after the surrender of Kut on 29 April 1916 and one showing British troops on board a river steamer making its way up the Tigris.
The advance to Baghdad in February - March 1917 is also covered with photographs of troops on the march past the Ctesiphon Arch; horses of B/66 Battery being watered at Baghdad and British field guns captured by the Turks at Kut and found by the British in Baghdad. The British built Basra-Amarah-Baghdad railway also features amongst the photographs and there are a number of group and individual portraits of named artillery officers (Wilmer, Gordon, Lynch Staunton, Willis, Gidley, Boyd, Ramsay and medical officer Wilson).
Latham's leave in India (July-August 1917) is also covered, including a view of the wireless station at Bombay; mules at Mona Remount Depot; the purchase of horses at 12th Cavalry's stud farm and a view of Mussoorie hill station.
Physical description
Black and white prints mounted (adhesive) on brown card front and back (probably album leaves removed from an album). Handwritten annotations in black ink. Red pencil numbers in the top corner of each leaf. 'Q 66046' handwritten in ink on each page. Individual Q references written next to prints copied into the Q series.