Description
Object description
Album containing black and white photographs relating to the service of Captain A S Miller in East and Central Africa between 1917 - 1920. The photographs cover Miller's voyage out to East Africa on the KENILWORTH CASTLE in November 1917, via Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban to Mombasa. There are photographs of significant buildings and street scenes in all these locations. Photographs from Nairobi include No.3 British General Hospital. Other locations photographed are Kijabe, Mbagathi (Details Camp and bathing parade); Nyasaland including the military camp at Blantyre and 1st Battalion, Kings African Rifles at Zomba. There are also photographs taken in Portuguese East Africa including African porters carrying stores across a river. From Tanganyika Territory, Miller's album has images of Dar-es-Salaam, Bismarcksburg on Lake Tanganyika, the Livingstone Hills and of German Schutztruppe Askaris surrendering at Kasama on 13 November 1918. There are also photographs taken at Abercorn in Northern Rhodesia in November 1918. Uganda is also covered with photographs of activities in Entebbe, Kampala (army sports and one of the guns from the SMS KONIGSBERG) and Bombo (Officers' Mess, accommodation, hospital and local market. The album also contains numerous photographs of named officers and NCOs of the King's African Rifles, a number of German Schutztruppe officers and nurses. In addition the 1919 peace celebrations are also covered, including official photographs showing the British Governor of East Africa reading the peace proclamation on 4 August 1919. Miller's album also has a number of prints showing the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles on parade at Kampala in August 1919. There are also photographs of new recruits, machine gun training and musketry, sports, medal presentation and men on sick parade with Spanish influenza. Other general scenes cover African villages and the railways in Uganda. At the back of the album are a small number of photographs covering Miller's service in France during 1915-1916 including one showing a Sergeant Renwick and Lieutenant Jones in a trench at Hebuterne on 1 July 1916 and four photo-postcards relating to personnel at 168th Brigade Bomb School at St Amand, May - June 1916.
Physical description
Black cloth covered photograph album with black and white prints glued to album pages, annotations handwritten in white ink appear on the album pages beside the photographs. The album is a Kodak 'Georgia' with the pages laced in. A number of the pages are loose and the album cover is faded and shows signs of wear and damage. Also, one loose black and white print.