Description
Object description
Albums, photographs and photo-postcards relating to the service of Corporal Ivan Bawtree with a British Army Graves Registration Unit in France and Flanders, 1915-1920. Photographs in the collection cover the exhumation of bodies near Passchendaele and reconstruction around Ypres during 1919. Also a number of interesting record photographs of British cemeteries in varying states completion:
Cemeteries and graves during the war:
Armentieres, Bailleul (including All Saints Day ceremony 1916), Boulogne, Cambrin churchyard (November 1915 - January 1916), Cuinchy (November 1915 - November 1916), Estaires, Givenchy (Windy Corner - Guards cemetery) (November 1915), Kemmel, La Gorgue (near Estaires), Lillers, Noeuse-les-Mines (grave of Major Hugh Foster), Ploegsteert Wood (Canadian burial ground 'Strand', Hyde Park Corner and Rifle House, Rifle Bde cemetery on Le Bizet road), Popperinghe, St Omer (Souvenir cemetery), Vermelles (October 1915 to February 1916), Vielle Chapelle.
Awaiting work by gardeners from the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries:
Caterpillar Valley cemetery, Delville Wood cemetery,
Ready for handover by the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries:
Albert Communal cemetery extension, Arneke cemetery, Bapaume Post cemetery (Albert), Dainville cemetery, Dartmoor cemetery (Albert-Peronne road), Hagle Dump cemetery (Brandhoek), La Sucrerie cemetery, Railway Dugouts cemetery (Zillebeke), Warloy-Ballion cemetery.
Under Imperial War Graves Commission gardeners:
Artillery Wood cemetery, Boulogne-sur-Mer Eastern cemetery, Buquoy Road cemetery, Bouzincourt Communal cemetery extention,Calais Southern cemetery, Doullens Communal cemetery extension, Duisans cemetery, Ecoivres cemetery (Mont St Eloi), Fauberge d'Amiens cemetery, Gordon Dump cemetery, Haute Bagneux cemetery, Heilly Station cemetery, La Barraques cemetery (Calais), Lijssenthoek cemetery (Poperinghe), Maroeuil cemetery (Somme), Mont Huon cemetery (Le Treport), Poperinghe New Military cemetery, Puchevillers cemetery, Souvenir cemetery (St Omer), Terlingthun cemetery (Boulogne), Villers Station cemetery (Arras), Vlamertinghe Old cemetery, Wimereux cemetery, Ypres Reservior North cemetery.
Competed IWGC cemeteries:
Forceville cemetery (Somme), Lauvaincourt (Somme), Le Treport.
A number of concentration cemeteries are also shown in the early days of construction:
Hooge Crater cemetery, Passchendaele New cemetery, Polygon Wood (including 5th Australian Division Memorial), Tyne Cot. Also Bazentin German cemetery.
The work of the IWGC is also covered with photographs of the organisation's HQ at Chateau de la Tour, Longuenesse (including architects, surveyors and draughtsmens offices, womens hostel, mens quarters, canteen and mess rooms, hospital and dispensary), a mobile lorry mounted living hut for gardeners, the nursery gardens at Lijssenthoek and Heilly Station, gardeners planting shrubs, motorcycle despatch riders, IWGC camp at Arras, power house and motor repair shops at Longuenesse, motor transport. Also, stonemasons at Messrs Arrowsmith in Stockwell, London, working on headstones; engraving and setting of headstones commemorating members of the Chinese Labour Corps (Novelles-sur-Mer cemetery).
In addition, there are a small number of photographic postcards showing staff and wounded soldiers at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in August and October 1915; group photographs of members of the Manchester University VAD (East Lancashire 194 & 196) and a signed portrait of Corporal Frederick William Holmes VC (2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry).
Physical description
Green cloth covered photograph album with leather covering the spine and leading right corners of the front and rear covers. The pages are screw fixed into the album. Make of album is 'Carlton Expanding album No. S1255 by Johnson & Sons, London. Black and white photographic prints are glued to the album pages. Annotations handwritten in white ink appear on the album pages.
Red card covered pocket accounts book used as photograph album. Black and white photographic prints are slip mounted onto the pages with handwritten annotation in ink on the pages.
Red cloth and leather covered album with gold lettering 'Postcards' and patterning on the spine. The album is empty and is of the 'slip in' mount type.
Also, three loose album pages each with four photo postcards mounted and handwritten captions, loose photographic prints and photo postcards with handwritten annotation on the reverse and five loose press cuttings (reproductions of Bawtree's photographs).
Panoramic photograph of Lijssenthoek cemetery mounted on card (in two pieces).