Description
Object description
374 photographs relating to Private Leonard Clutterbuck's service as a Nursing Orderly on board HM Hospital Ship DORSETSHIRE during the Second World War.
Two albums contain 194 and 159 photographs respectively. There are also 21 loose photographs.
Material coverage includes:
LARGE ALBUM (194 prints):
Views of towns, harbours, personnel from HM Hospital Ship DORSETSHIRE, views of HMHS DORSETSHIRE, etc, at Tripoli, Benghazi, Bardia, Derna, Tobruk, Bougie (Algeria), Gibralter, Phillipeville (Algeria), Alexandria (Egypt), Port Said, Suez Bay, Ismailia (Egypt), Pompeii, Mount Vesuvious, Algiers.
Postcard-prints of Cairo, Cape Town, Durban, Bombay, Karachi, Taranto, Bari, Palermo.
Photographs of other vessels: EMPRESS OF BRITAIN, QUEEN ELIZABETH, USS AMERICA, ORANJE, various French cruisers at Alexandria in 1943, tanker sunk by Japanese at Madagascar.
SMALL ALBUM (159 prints):
Views of towns, harbours, HMHS DORSETSHIRE and her crew, Italian soldiers etc at Port Said, Suez Canal, Bardia, Tobruk, Derna, Port Sudan, Valletta, Aden, Haifa, Bombay, Karachi, Eritrea, Mombassa, Diego Suarez, Majungh, Tamatave,
Royal Navy ships: HMS NORMAN, HMS NIZAM, HMS FOXHOUND, HMS RAMILLIES, HMS ACTIVE, HMS DAUNTLESS, HMS BIRMINGHAM, HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, HMS WARSPITE, HMS FORMIDABLE, HMS EAGLE, HMS TERROR
Hospital ships: ATLANTUS, VITA, LLANDOVERT CASTLE, MANUNDA (Australian), VASNA
Other vessels: Ex-Chinese riverboat USU, South African AMRA, CALODEN, HMAS AUSTRALIA, GRAF SPEE, LORRAINE (French battleship), SASN GIORGIO, PATRIA,
21 LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:
Group photograph taken at Durban Greywood Camp July 1941
Two portraits of Private Leonard Clutterbuck.
9 photographs of scenic views and local people at a location(s) unspecified (possibly Haifa, Palestine).
8 photographs of personnel from HMHS DORSETSHIRE, including Leonard Clutterbuck at the Pyramids in Egypt.
Also included in the collection are a variety of ephemera:
2 Soldier's Service and Pay Books
14 leaflets, mostly relating to information about places visited by Leonard Clutterbuck
3 newspapers (Times of Malta, Eritrean Daily News, Tripoli Times)
5 double-backed postcard prints of Suez
67 postcards and postcard-prints
4 leaflets relating to HMHS DORSETSHIRE